Originally published at: While One Challenge to Trump’s Election Order Reaches SCOTUS, He Notches Early Win in Parallel Case - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Multiple challenges to President Donald Trump’s March “election integrity” executive order are moving through the federal judiciary simultaneously, including one that has reached the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, an appeals court in Washington D.C. presiding over a separate challenge to the EO sided with the administration, agreeing that it is too early for plaintiffs to…
The shadow docket? Me thinks they’re aiming to allow this.
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The panel — perhaps naively, given the Supreme Court’s predilection for deciding that Purcell matters only when it helps Republicans — assured the DSCC that its worry is unfounded.
The court is a political body. It is not coincidental that it considers Republican Party needs before national needs.
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The Court has been consistent in giving this administration the benefit of the doubt and lifting lower court injunctions on previous executive orders. And with this one they won’t even have to actually rule on the case, because if they let the Trump administration cook the midterms, they will appoint Stephen Miller as Supreme Court Regent to allow the members of the Court to investigate Democratic voter fraud full time, and his decisions will all be issued by text message only using emojis.
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That is certainly a bad sign.
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Perhaps?
This looks a tad willful or ostrich head in the sand at the very least. Judge Cannon demonstrated it only takes one corrupt judge to brazenly commit injustice and somehow the Republican Six still deserve the benefit of the doubt?
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DJT: The Art of the Schlemiel
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The Trump administration has taken steps to finalize and enforce the order, but the D.C. Circuit Court only looked at the body of evidence the district court analyzed. The panel — two Obama appointees and one Trump appointee — unanimously upheld the lower court’s finding that it’s too early to challenge the order.
Courts can only deal with the case and evidence in the record. This decision shouldn’t be surprising if the court is following the Federal rules of civil procedure.
Josh wrote an editorial about this a few weeks ago. The blue states need to Just Say No.
…It is incumbent on those state officials not simply to “resist” but to refuse, to lean into the full power of their state sovereignty under the federal constitution…What does this mean in practice? It means that every illegal demand from the White House and Trump’s federal officers gets a flat no from state officials…
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/state-sovereignty-and-trumps-war-against-the-constitution