Meet Steven Grasz, the Trump stooge who was one of the two judges who produced (but had enough residual shame to refuse to put their names on) yesterday's lawless 8 CA last-minute election theft ruling civilrights.org/resource/oppos… 
How atrocious was this ruling? My colleague Paul explains, and he doesn't even get to all of the ways in which it is indefensible! lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/10/purge-…
1)Despite the assertions by the court that is standing up for the prerogatives of the Minnesota state legislature, literally nobody representing the state government is objecting to the consent decree to count the votes:
2)As with Bush v. Gore, the court just ignores the fact that the Minnesota legislature EXPRESSLY DELEGATED AUTHORITY TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO ADRESS EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES!
3)The plaintiffs bringing the suit did not have standing under state or federal law:
4)Paul doesn't even get to this, but as @mjs_DC explains, the holding on the merits that giving state legislatures the power to set election law preempts judicial or executive construction is 1)transparently idiotic, and 2)not the current law: slate.com/news-and-polit…
And, finally, even if the plaintiffs had standing (they don't) or the ruling on the merits was defensible (it's not), reliance interests just CLEARLY forbid the Court from changing the rules 4 1/2 days before an election: electionlawblog.org/?p=117784
But Grasz and Bush nominee Bobby Shepherd are going what they were put on the federal bench to do: advance the partisan interests of the Republican Party irrespective of the law.
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