# Supreme court dismisses remaining post-election lawsuits **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 25, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721 "2021-02-25T13:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/1 "2021-02-25T13:23:01Z")
> **[Supreme Court dismisses remaining challenges to President Joe Biden's...](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/02/22/Supreme-Court-dismisses-remaining-challenges-to-Bidens-election-win/4811614011448/)** > > The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected several remaining legal challenges related to former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. I couldn’t find links to the actual opinions/denials of certiorari Brian ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/2 "2021-02-25T13:27:27Z")
Some concern being expressed that Justice Thomas is asserting that the federal courts can review state election decisions, and also declaring that vote by mail is fraudulent: > **[Clarence Thomas Promotes Trump’s Voter Fraud Lies in Alarming Dissent](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/clarence-thomas-voter-fraud-trump-pennsylvania.html)** > > Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch also signaled their desire to reverse state court decisions expanding vote by mail. Link to the decision: > **[20-542\_2c83.pdf](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-542_2c83.pdf)** > > 102.27 KB ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/3 "2021-02-25T15:33:39Z")
That’s the same Clarence Thomas whose wife has apparently very [close connections](https://www.newsweek.com/clarence-thomas-gop-election-challenge-dissent-sparks-calls-investigate-his-wife-1571179) to the insurrectionist criminal mob that stormed Congress and murdered people? Yea, no problems there at all. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/4 "2021-02-27T12:02:48Z")
That’s one reason we have nine Supreme Court Justices and not just one - to keep one lunatic from screwing up the judiciary. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/5 "2021-02-27T14:02:46Z")
The only difference between the Mitch McConnell wing and the Trump wing of the party is that McConnell wanted a procedural, legislative, and judicial coup; Trump wanted a violent coup. McConnell is no friend of democracy but he concedes that it exists and that it’s better to have an aristocratic elitist democracy than a government run on the whim of a wannabe presidential dictator. But that’s really the only difference. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/6 "2021-02-27T14:17:14Z")
I agree that you’re correct about this difference. I think McConnell is also correct that it is in fact better to have an aristocratic elitist democracy than a government run in the whim of a wannabe presidential dictator. Of course having a legitimate functional democracy is even better, but if given a choice between the other two, McConnell’s version is better than Trump’s. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/7 "2021-02-27T14:56:31Z")
IIRC it is not the first time Thomas has expressed willingness to have the court look at whatever was the point someone was trying to make even when the majority (and even a majority of conservatives) have said “let’s leave well enough alone for now”? But notice that again, the Trump Justices expressed no problem with the dismissal. So it raises eyebrows. And yes, the " Old Republican Guard" do prefer something more like the Venetian or Roman republics where there are due processes and forms that are followed to keep the oligarchs in power, but among each other they play by rules; a regime of pure strongman’s whims is bad for business investment. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/8 "2021-02-28T01:55:55Z")
Linda Greenhouse, opinion writer for the NY Times (I think she used to be their SCOTUS reporter?) tears into these dismissals. Pretty concerning: > **[Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Not Finished With Elections (Published 2021)](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/opinion/supreme-court-elections.html)** > > The justices are about to consider whether the Voting Rights Act applies to policies that restrict the vote. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-dismisses-remaining-post-election-lawsuits/933721/9 "2021-03-03T00:50:06Z")
Here are the rejections: [https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/022221zor\_2cp3-2.pdf](https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/022221zor_2cp3-2.pdf) > [@Michigan](#): > > 20-815 KING, TIMOTHY, ET AL. V. WHITMER, GOV. OF MI, ET AL. > The petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment is > denied. (Georgia case was voluntarily dismissed, after expedited case was denied: [https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/Pearson.pdf](https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/Pearson.pdf)) Wisconsin and Arizona: [https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/12/Read-SCOTUS-order-denying-writ-here..pdf](https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/12/Read-SCOTUS-order-denying-writ-here..pdf) > [@Wisconsin case](#): > > 20-859 IN RE WILLIAM FEEHAN > The petitions for writs of mandamus are denied. > [@Arizona case](#): > > MANDAMUS DENIED > 20-858 IN RE TYLER BOWYER, ET AL.