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The Supreme Court rejects the latest assault by Donald Trump. The result of the elections on November 3 does not change. The highest judicial body returns to the sender the appeal filed by the Texas prosecutor, Ken Paxton, backed by colleagues from 17 other states, 126 Republican MPs and, of course, Trump. The court yesterday made declined to consider the lawsuit filed against Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. With a few-line statement, it states that: The matter does not fall within the tasks assigned to the Court by the Constitution. Furthermore, it is noted that Texas does not have a recognized judicial interest in defying the rules of other states in electoral matters. Among the nine robes, two Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have dissociated themselves, arguing that the matter actually falls within our jurisdiction. However, Alito himself points out that this does not mean accepting Texan disputes on the merits. .
The decision probably definitively breaks the judicial guerilla started by the incumbent president, immediately after Joe Biden’s victory. Trump had the most conservative judges: six to three. But not even the magistrates he appointed, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett, followed him. In the appeal presented by Texan Paxton, on December 8, we read: Confidence in our electoral procedures is sacrosanct and unites all of our citizens and the States of the Union. Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have destroyed this trust and compromised the security and integrity of the elections … We now ask the Supreme Court to intervene and correct this grave error.
If the Supreme Court shows great wisdom and courage, the American people will win perhaps the most important case in history, and our electoral process will be respected again!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020
On the merits Paxton questions the counting of the ballots that arrived after the November 3 election. This operation, in fact, was carried out in several states, not only in the four decisive for the electoral result. And, everywhere, the rules were followed, considering only the votes that reached the offices before November 3. The reaction of authorities in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin was furious. The Texas Attorney General was accused of wanting to overthrow democracy in the United States. Paxton’s initiative immediately seemed unrealistic: a challenge to common sense, even under the laws of the United States. It had never happened that a state questioned the legislation in force in other places. Federal and state judges had already dismissed more than 40 appeals, and prior to yesterday’s dismissal, the Supreme Court had flatly dismissed the disputes regarding alleged wrongdoing in Pennsylvania. But behind Paxton is Donald Trump. The incumbent president had summoned all of his possible supporters within the country’s institutions. Here, then, is that Texas has joined with Republican prosecutors from seventeen other states, to Trump’s delight, via Twitter. They are worth listing: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia. In three of these states, Louisiana, Kansas and Oklahoma, the Democratic governor. It will take some time to understand if this is the map of the last Japanese or the sign of a new super Trumpian movement that begins to organize in the country, with strong connections in the Washington Congress and in the Red states.
Trump can count on Tex Cruz. The Texan senator had toured television to support the president’s good reasons in office. He had also offered to defend the case in the Supreme Court Chamber. Cruz is a former prosecutor and has just written a book on the American justice system. But now nothing is done. In the House, however, 126 Republican MPs have signed Paxton’s appeal. In the new House, which will meet on January 3, Republicans are expected to have 213 seats to 222 Democrats. Trump forced the Conservatives to count and then split. But the end result could weaken the bargaining force of the Conservatives at a crucial stage like the one before us, with the Biden administration poised to invest billions of dollars in public spending in the country. Clearly, Trump either doesn’t care about everything or is not helpful to his future plans.
December 12, 2020 (change December 12, 2020 | 05:10)
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