Also notice that only Thomas and Alito said that the court should have taken up the case (without commenting on its substance). Not one of Donnie’s three justices joined that statement. Delicious.
I’m not sure how you’re reading it, but I’m comfortable just asserting that Article I requires Congress to reapportion once every ten years. If there’s a disagreement we don’t need to hash it out here, I think one debate-within-a-debate is enough.
I had assumed the hypothetical scenario has California suing Texas today - after the popular vote, after the safe harbor deadline - to overturn the election in Texas. Based on your post #168,
You appear to have since shifted to (or rather, conceded) a theory of standing based on Congressional inaction. At this point I think the hypothetical is no longer relevant to the topic at hand. If you want to continue by PM or in a separate topic I would be happy to oblige.
~Max
Keep in mind that Thomas and Alito share a theory that in original jurisdiction cases between states, that the Constitution requires that they must accept the case. But they specifically said that they would not “grant other relief” such as the injunction that Texas requested. It was a 9-0
Just like President Trump promised when he nominated Judge Barrett!
~Max
Oh yea, the MAGA hat wearers are certain this is the one.
PA is certainly not going to seek cert. on the case they won. I assume you mean the plaintiffs in that case? If they haven’t filed yet, I wonder what they’re waiting for. Their already-nil chances don’t get any better after Monday.
It basically reads as if someone wrote up Trump’s Twitter feed in a brief.
I’m glad the Supreme Court shot this down, but part of me wishes they had waited until Monday morning to keep litigants from filing even stupider lawsuits before the Electoral College meets, and to decrease the threat of “civil war” over the weekend.
Threatening to break up the union to appease Donald fucking Trump.
The fact that a mass cult of personality has taken over half of America is terrible. The fact it has been built around him is a farce.
He’s been in the public eye for 40 years before politics and widely considered a joke for most of it. Even the people who love him now and would give their life for him probably despised him 15 years ago when he was a reality tv figure.
It is truly and without doubt deplorable. As are those who belong to it. Without doubt.
Texas has been threatening succession since I grew up there, which was 50+ years ago. And I say God bless them, let them do it.
Right. I believe there were some tweets from Rep Kelly and co. claiming they would be seeking cert after their request for an injunction was dismissed. But it is rather hard to tell the difference between grandstanding and court filings these days.
On a sidenote some of the MAGA fanfic that Clarence Thomas would wage a 30 years in the making retribution against Joe Biden looks pretty hilarious now.
And I hope they enjoy forming a union with those economic “powerhouse” states like North Dakota.
Yeah. No stopping the certifications, no stopping the electors from meeting, more of “all right, sure, we’ll hear what you have to say… but you know we know you’re bullshitting, don’t you?”
Right. It’s an ultimate denial on the merits no matter what you call it because it is time sensitive. It’s like if I file suit to stop a building from being imploded on Monday and the judge denies an injunction. The judge has decided the case by refusing the injunction. It’s not like I can do anything on Tuesday with the building a heap of rubble.
Wouldn’t it be funny if they succeeded seceding just one cycle before the demographic shift moved Texas into voting D? 
It would indeed be ironic but the new Texas Republic will make sure that conservatives will govern the country no matter how badly they’re outnumbered by liberal types.
I, for one, would be delighted if Texas seceded. Maybe they would stop putting pressure on US text book developers, among other virtues.
Also, it’s kind of exciting to think that visiting my old friends would become visiting a foreign country!
[I just noticed that I misspelled secession, everything is voice to text and I just keep missing things like that]