Why Moore v. Harper Terrifies Democrats
American Spectator,
by
David Catron
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
12/12/2022 1:29:23 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court finally heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper last week. The case involves a mundane constitutional issue concerning the definition of “legislature” as used in the elections clause. Yet it has produced panic among Democrats and a torrent of portentous predictions about the death of democracy from various leftist law professors. In the Washington Post, for example, Harvard University’s Noah Feldman expressed alarm that the court took up the “insane” case at all.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dr. Constant 12/12/2022 1:37:58 AM (No. 1354561)
Would this keep judges from extending voting hours?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 12/12/2022 2:01:23 AM (No. 1354566)
The Democrats view the Courts as their legislative branch of last resort. If SCOTUS upholds Moore v Harper for the Legislative Branch, Court dictated legislation goes out the window. One can only hope SCOTUS does the right thing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Howard Adams 12/12/2022 4:35:57 AM (No. 1354580)
We should thank President Trump for keeping his promise to appoint justices who will abide by the Constitution. I hope they do not fail their obligation to our Republic.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
The Remnants 12/12/2022 6:52:52 AM (No. 1354617)
Definition of "pettifoggers" [last paragraph of David Catron's article]
Pettifogger: An inferior legal practitioner, especially one who deals with petty cases or employs dubious practices. [Oxford Languages]
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 12/12/2022 7:35:49 AM (No. 1354645)
Dims won't be able to cheat. I'll bet that frosts their nuts.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rama41 12/12/2022 8:27:21 AM (No. 1354674)
After RBG died in 2020, I remember Roberts siding with the Democrats 5-3 to allow the PA Supreme Court to overrule the PA legislature with its own voting scheme, which not only gave us Biden, but now Fetterman (Vegetable, PA).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/12/2022 8:28:54 AM (No. 1354676)
And, of course, John Roberts will issue some mealy mouthed half-hearted dissent that will nonetheless, but regretfully, concur with the conservative decision.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 12/12/2022 9:16:54 AM (No. 1354716)
SCOTUS blather. The Democrats have changed the rules of the game: mail in ballots. Districting matters little if the goal is to control rather than dominate. Domination will come later when they work towards the permanent 2/3rds majority they need in the House and Senate to dictate. Perhaps I'm wrong, but the Leftists have been playing a long game that technology has finally allowed them to realize.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/12/2022 9:23:11 AM (No. 1354719)
The American people have had one day to vote for decades. You voted before work or after work and they had all of the results ready before midnight. Why do we suddenly have so many people who are sick, too illiterate, away from home or can't get up off their butts to vote on the designated day? Curiously, it's the people who do not work who are causing all of the controversy. The only exception should be for military folks who should be able to vote at their duty station with results sent to the US in a sealed, serialized package.
We know why, of course. Mail-ins, harvesting, unsigned, on-line machines, late night bags of "found" votes are the only ways that democrats can win because their ideas of governing the country are ridiculous, destructive, overly expensive, stupid and unpopular.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 12/12/2022 9:53:38 AM (No. 1354745)
One major problem in this case is that the State Supreme Court redrew the maps. Drawing those maps is a clearly a function of the Legislature. I wanted a SC justice to ask, "Can the state pass a statute to mandate that the State's Supreme Court shall draw such maps, and that such maps are thereafter immune from amendments by the Legislature?
The SC is not going to hold that the state Legislature is immune from judicial review by the state's Supreme Court regarding the Legislature's decisions that specify time, place and manner regarding congressional elections.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
faceincrowd 12/12/2022 10:07:28 AM (No. 1354758)
When I hear any references from Demoncrats about "the death of democracy", it just translates to "hey, we might have a harder time cheating".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/12/2022 10:42:25 AM (No. 1354781)
There are six Republican legislatures that wish all this would go away. Why? They failed in their Constitutional duties in 2020 by essentially allowing the certification of Biden electors when the election results were reasonably in question, mainly due to rogue behavior by local election officials making up the rules and going unchallenged and unchecked by the legislatures. You can blame the commie Dems and Dominion all day. Still, there has never been an investigation into this inert behavior in the face of apparent election theft by these Republican legislatures...and one wonders why.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
babelfish30101 12/12/2022 10:52:51 AM (No. 1354790)
From what I've read, after the arguments its 3-3-3, with Roberts, Kavenaugh and Barret and in middle. We know where Roberts will go, that 4 No's.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
David Key 12/12/2022 11:04:03 AM (No. 1354796)
Regardless how it's settled, the language in the Constitution makes it quite clear that the states legislature is the sole arbiter and rule maker for elections.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/12/2022 11:34:39 AM (No. 1354831)
It's a wait and see!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 12/13/2022 12:44:24 AM (No. 1355238)
Making sure that the damned courts cannot override the laws made by the legislature scares thehell out of Dems who depend upon crooked, overreaching courts to steal elections.
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