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This comment is typical: Justice Alito is playing games to allow the PA case to become moot- any SCOTUS opinion would be for clarification of the runoff election or whatever. FIRST: the SCOTUS has long ruled it has no ART 3 authority to issue an advisory opinion. Any decision= https://twitter.com/miryamcerati/status/1334743041089937408
rendered on a moot case would be an advisory opinion. SECOND: the Safe harbor act is a congressional statute, the act is inferior to the 14th Amendment equal protection clause or any other constitutional provision that pertains to state electoral votes. THIRD: the Bush v Gore=
Equal Protection ruling is a week reed of little precedential weight, because the SCOTUS practically said so in the opinion itself. The very weak authority of that case fades almost to the vanishing point when reviewed pursuant to the Court’s elevation of the stare decisis to an=
an analytical method of evaluating controversial and highly charged claims. FOURTH: Justice Alito issued an order to segregate ballots arriving during a three day extension judicially authorized by the PA Supreme Court but not authorized by the PA legislature. And here I link a=
a short and sweet article that will explain why Justice Alito is not playing games. Justices of the Supreme Court never play games. I link the article with this caveat, I have no prediction how the case will conclude, but I can tell you this much: all the argument of distinction=
made in the latter half of the article of the PA case and the Bush vGore case are lacking in fundamental merit for this reason: if a court must violate a statute in order to “save it” the Court has violated the constitution in two respects: first, the constitutional supremacy of=
of the statute pursuant to Art 2 Sec 1 of the US Constitution; secondly violated the statute based on the federal constitutional provision AS APPLIED. The argument destroys any break to a judicial decision in any circumstance the state judges see fit to “save” a statute based on=
a federal constitutional provision that excludes the state judicial from the role the constitution grants to the state legislature. For your information: https://www.penncapital-star.com/commentary/alito-conservative-justices-are-fighting-old-ghosts-in-pa-count-all-the-ballots-bruce-ledewitz/
PS: Please do not let your thoughts run wildly in any direction after reading the article. This is a case in which any prediction how it will turn out is walking on thin air.
