“I’m very happy that they’ve done this,” Mr. Lindell said in a phone interview on Monday. “I’m ready to go to court. I have all the evidence that anyone would ever want to see.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/business/mike-lindell-mypillow-election-fraud-suit.html
Yeah, we heard that "I have all the evidence" refrain 60 odd times, in front of reporters and on TV shows, but, when it got to the court room-where they can disbar and even jail a lawyer who lies-not so much. Take that cock outta your mouth, road scum, what happened to all those wins from that ugly old crack 'hoe that were gonna be "biblical," bitch? Notice in the article below, about, arguably the biggest piece of shit to ever infect SCOTUS, it mentions she and her cohorts took it IN the crack today, along with Delusional, Dumped Daughter Diddling Douchebag, of course
[h=1]Clarence Thomas's Dissent Is a Dressed-Up Version of a Classic Conservative Con[/h] The Supreme Court justice is Just Asking Questions that were raised by Republicans in the first place.
By
Charles P. Pierce
Feb 22, 2021
On Monday, while the Senate Judiciary Committee finally got a chance to chat with Merrick Garland, nominated this time around to be attorney general, the Supreme Court denied two challenges by Pennsylvania Republicans to the balloting in the presidential election last November. Basically, at issue were the adjustments made by Pennsylvania’s election officials in order to assist with the franchise during a time of pandemic. The Republicans contended that all changes of this sort must be made by the state legislature. The Court dismissed this argument out of hand, but with three predictable dissents. From
Forbes:
The court ultimately declined to review the case Monday, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissenting. Two Trump campaign lawsuits against
Pennsylvania’s and Wisconsin’s elections were also thrown out, as well as Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Penn.)’s
attempt to challenge Pennsylvania’s election. The court also rejected Powell’s
“Kracken” case alleging widespread fraud in Michigan, after the far-right attorney and her allies had touted the Supreme Court considering the case as a signal that her post-election lawsuits still had a chance of success.
It was another defeat for the former president*, who had a very bad day at the Court on Monday, and a big win for Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who argued:
“Time and time again, Trump and his enablers took Pennsylvania to court in an attempt to throw out legal votes…Let these Supreme Court actions today finalize the truth: Pennsylvania's elections were free, fair and legal. End of story.”
However, most conspicuous was the dissent by Justice Thomas, both because it is free floating hogwash of a very high order, and also because it’s a further illustration of a problem on the Court that’s been allowed to fester much too long. The dissent is merely a gussied-up version of the standard conservative con of citing “questions” that were raised by the Republicans in the first place.
The court also ordered officials to count ballots received by the new deadline even if there was no evidence—such as a postmark—that the ballots were mailed by election day. That decision to rewrite the rules seems to have affected too few ballots to change the outcome of any federal election. But that may not be the case in the future. These cases provide us with an ideal opportunity to address just what authority nonlegislative officials have to set elec- tion rules, and to do so well before the next election cycle. The refusal to do so is inexplicable.
An election system lacks clear rules when, as here, different officials dispute who has authority to set or change those rules. This kind of dispute brews confusion because voters may not know which rules to follow. Even worse, with more than one system of rules in place, competing candidates might each declare victory under different sets of rules.
We are fortunate that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to change the receipt deadline for mail-in ballots does not appear to have changed the outcome in any federal election. This Court ordered the county boards to segregate ballots received later than the deadline set by the legislature. Order in
Republican Party of Pa. v. Boockvar, No. 20A84. And none of the parties contend that those ballots made an outcome-determinative difference in any relevant federal election. But we may not be so lucky in the future.
See? The justice is Just Asking Questions. But the deeper problem is not the fact that the dissent is an argument for a remedy in search of a problem. The deeper problem is that the justice is married to someone who was involved in the events and activities that led to the insurrection of January 6.
Ginni Thomas is
a career conservative activist and
one who would be called a denizen of the political fringe, if there
were still a fringe to the modern Republican Party. She
also has been involved in
ad hoc political escapades best described as bizarre. Last month, Thomas
vigorously publicized the rally in Washington that preceded the violent invasion of the Capitol. (She shortly thereafter removed her Facebook posts that shilled for the rally.) She had spent the entire previous administration*
ingratiating herself with the folks down at Camp Runamuck. It is not unreasonable to suggest that, in his fact-averse dissent, Justice Thomas might be working the same side of the street. At the very least, Chief Justice John Roberts should be wondering what’s going on down the bench a little ways.