Pennsylvania GOP ask Supreme Court for rehearing on Democrats cheat by mail-in ballot scam
Pennsylvania Republicans have filed a second emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court in the hope of undoing a state Supreme Court ruling that forces Pennsylvania election officials to accept mail-in ballots received up to three days after Election Day.
Pennsylvania is among the most hotly contested states for the Nov. 3 presidential election. President Donald Trump won the state in 2016 by 44,292 votes out of more than 6 million cast. He secured 48.2 percent of the popular vote in the state, beating Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won 47.5 percent, according to Ballotpedia.
Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win the presidency.
The Supreme Court currently has eight members instead of the usual nine due to the Sept. 18 death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12–0 on Oct. 22 to send the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to the Senate floor. Every Republican member of the committee voted to support the nomination; Democratic members boycotted the vote. Trump and Senate Republican leaders have said they want Barrett confirmed before Nov. 3, a goal that is now within reach.
Along those lines, the Senate voted 51–48 on Oct. 25 on a procedural motion to move the nomination forward; a final confirmation vote is scheduled for Oct. 26.
On Oct. 19, the nation’s highest court denied on a 4–4 vote a Republican request to stay the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling requiring state election officials to count mail-in ballots received up to three days after Nov. 3. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh indicated they would have approved the emergency application. Chief John Roberts voted with the three liberal justices—Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor—to refuse the stay.
If Barrett joins the Supreme Court in time to consider the new case, Pennsylvania Republicans hope she would vote to block the state Supreme Court ruling, which they say is legally incorrect.
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By extending the deadline for counting mail-in ballots it gives a state with a history of vote fraud the opportunity to know how many votes they have to create or harvest to change the outcome. Roberts siding with the Democrats is inexplicable.
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