PA Supreme Court says adios to the Trumpy commonwealth court judge.
"It is beyond cavil that Petitioners failed to act with due diligence in presenting the instant claim. Equally clear is the substantial prejudice [that] would result in the disenfranchisement of millions of
Pennsylvania voters."
Concurrence: "There is no basis in law by which the courts may grant Petitioners’ request to ignore the results of an election and recommit the choice to the General Assembly to substitute its preferred slate of electors for the one chosen by a majority of Pennsylvania’s voters."
PA's Chief Justice (who dissented in part): "There has been too much good-faith reliance, by the electorate, on the no-excuse mail-in voting regime ... to warrant judicial consideration of the **extreme and untenable remedies** proposed by Appellees." (emphasis added)

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His policing record is he covered up a murder.
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(In this case they’re seeking to avert Minnesota’s certification, which is scheduled to happen today.) democracydocket.com/wp-content/upl… Image
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