The Republicans “appear to have established a likelihood to succeed on the merits because Petitioners have asserted the Constitution does not provide a mechanism for the legislature to allow for expansion of absentee voting without a constitutional amendment,” McCullough said in a written opinion issued late Friday.
McCullough wrote the statement of her legal findings to provide legal justification for her Nov. 25 order calling a halt to the certification process. Those justifications will be considered by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, which has the authority either to uphold or to overturn her legal findings.
In response to McCullough’s ruling this week, lawyers for the state and the governor said constitutional challenges to the law, signed by Wolf on Oct. 31, 2019, were possible within 180 days of it becoming effective, a deadline that passed early this year.
and even if the law allowing for mail in voting did get thrown out, it would be an injust remedy to throw out ballots cast by citizens who believed they were voting in good faith.
The Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus still has a page up on their web site bragging about how they passed the very law that they are now arguing was unconstitutional.
“This bill was not written to benefit one party or the other, or any one candidate or single election. It was developed over a multi-year period, with input from people of different backgrounds and regions of Pennsylvania. It serves to preserve the integrity of every election and lift the voice of every voter in the Commonwealth.”
- PA House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler
That’s what the Pennsylvania GOP was saying about this law as of less than a month ago.
No words for how shameless and craven these people are.
The state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, threw out the three-day-old order, saying the underlying lawsuit was filed months after the law allowed for challenges
[…] His comments come despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden. […] Barr didn’t name Powell specifically but said: "There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results. And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that,” Barr said. […]
i have to say, if you’re a corrupt president who is so corrupt and batshit crazy that even william barr won’t back your play you have seriously hit the deep end.
Where is that from?
