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I am not surprised that the Supremes refused to hear the case. I stated so earlier in comments in another thread on Friday. I am not a lawyer nor Constitutional scholar but I did believe from the convoluted logic that those cases usually take that Texas and the other states didn’t have standing to complain about how another state conducted their affairs. Yes, they broke their own laws but the suit needed to be brought by a different entity(not sure who it would have to be to get proper standing) The court specifically said it wasn’t judging any of the facts in the filing. I think this was the court saying that the Constitution has a prescribed soltution for the problem of contested elections that has already been used twice before. They didn’t want to set a precedent of ruling on an election(different circumstances than 2000 BushvsGore. Trump needs to present the case to the 4-6 swing states legislatures to convince them to send a second slate of electors so that the VP(Pence) can choose the Trump electors not the Biden electors. That or they have to go the state delegation route where each state gets one vote. Those are the two specific remedies outlined in the Constitution. The court didn’t want to supercede them when they are the prescribed method for fixing this problem. Lets hope that is the path followed.
The plaintiffs needed to be citizens of the contested swing states. If a group of state officials in each of the specific states actually filed the suit the Supremes wouldn’t be able to toss it based on standing. However, it would have taken more time to actually study the evidence and in the end the Supremes would probably still referred to the prescribed solutions mentioned above from the Constitution.
Probably Correct CM
Many of the Repubs in the State legislatures have stated they want to send a second slate …BUT I am not sure if there is a majority consensus
BUT your point that the SC did not offer an opinion on the merits of the accusations is well taken
One great thing this Suit Proves…contrary to what the MSM says …Half of the States in the Union believe there was Fraud and Unconstitutional Behavior Including members of the legislature from 2 of the accused states…Michigan and Georgia.
We know that Half of the Voters think so as well….and this IN SPITE of the CENSORSHIP in MSM !
So Trump had much more support than the Crooks want to believe.
Can someone answer this? Who has the mettle in these state legislatures to stand up to the SA… the brown shirts known as antifa? Most of these are Rino’s who sought office for the cushy perks. We of course need warriors. Eventually they may rise up to replace these softies, but it will take an election cycle. I hope I am wrong on this.
Here is an interesting take
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=160283
Another Comment from an email group
I don’t suspect that the intention of Alito or Thomas was to dodge. I really don’t. Additionally, their comments appended to the brief order were, I believe, purposeful. I believe they surveyed the landscape of the Texas lawsuit, and determined it wasn’t the proper vehicle, and, moreover would waste valuable time.
SCOTUS’s request for responses from Defendant States supports this. The Court didn’t need to read their responses to determine lack of standing. So why did they request them?
My belief is that the Court knows there is a cause of action, but wishes it in the proper form and, critically, presented AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
So there’s my hopium for the day!