Reshaping the Supreme Court into a conservative majority was supposed to be one of President Trump’s crowning achievements.
It’s not working out that way.
And the Supreme Court just smacked Trump with the worst news of his life.
The Supreme Court Paves the Way for Democrat Mail-in Ballot Hijinx
Democrats won the 2020 election by loosening the rules on mail-in voting in key states where ballots could pour in after Election Day with no voter ID.
Many of the controversies and allegations of fraud surrounding that election stemmed from Democrats’ ability to flood the zone with unverified mail-in ballots.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett executed yet another of her rudderless opinions and ideological betrayals by claiming Election Day didn’t really mean Election Day.
“The Framers recognized the difficulty of crafting election laws ‘applicable to every probable change in the situation of the country.’ The Federalist No. 59, at 362. So instead of constitutionalizing election law, they decided that ‘a discretionary power over elections’ needed to be lodged ‘somewhere,'” Barrett wrote I her majority opinion. “Suffice it to say, that power was not lodged in this Court. The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose.”
Trump and his supporters sat in stunned disbelief when the Supreme Court handed down this opinion.
No one in their right mind could understand why two supposedly “conservative” justices like Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts could side with the left on allowing floods of shady ballots to pour in long after Election Day.
Respect for the Rule of Law and institutional credibility are supposed to be foundational values of the conservative legal movement that Barrett and Roberts grew out of.
But Barrett and Roberts flushed those beliefs down the drain to bless the Democrat Party’s wild-west mail-in balloting schemes.
A Split on the Supreme Court
Justice Samuel Alito authored a powerful dissent where he called out Barrett and the rest of the justices for threatening the very foundations of democracy.
Self-government only works if the people have faith that they have a fair say in picking their leaders.
Alito slammed the majority for blowing up that pillar of the American experiment.
“If ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day,” Alito wrote. “The acceptance of these late-arriving ballots effectively postpones the date on which the electorate’s choice is made.”
Alito flat-out said that allowing mail-in votes to trickle in after election day presented an open invitation to fraud.
“Allowing absentee ballots to pour in over the days and weeks after election day, by which point preliminary election returns are being publicly reported, creates greater opportunity for fraud and risks further undermining the public’s confidence in election integrity,” Alito added.
Trump and his supporters contend that the only reason Democrats want to extend the vote-counting period past Election Day is so they know how many votes they need to manufacture to win.
Alito’s central argument is that by delivering a stamp of approval on the idea that states can count votes that arrive after Election Day, the Supreme Court poured accelerant on theories about rigged elections as opposed to ensuring that Americans believed voting produced legitimate outcomes.
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