Well, At Least We Know Where We Stand

 C. Edmund Wright has an article at the American Thinker entitled Our Supreme Court Goes Full Nicaragua in PA Election Case. In refusing to "grant cert" to the case, the Supremes have basically cemented election fraud as the "new normal." I can remember when we all looked upon our electoral system with a certain pride. Oh, sure, there was the occasional mischief pulled in an election, but it seldom affected national elections. Right? Right??

While I think the United States Supreme Court stumbled badly in its 7-2 rejection of the Texas case on standing last year, the refusal to “grant cert” (i.e., to take the case) yesterday in a Pennsylvania case is horrifying beyond words. I could say that our election laws are now full-on banana republic, but I’d hate to insult bananas that badly.

What the Supreme Court codified yesterday, and what it started with the Texas rejection, is that election laws and procedures cannot be challenged beyond a state court, at any time, regardless of how badly those states shred the United States Constitution, and regardless of the major consequences to the other 49 states as a result. They don’t ever say that per se, but the results of what those two rulings have done are just that. Period.

Those trying to challenge Pennsylvania’s obviously corrupt and rigged election system have been told that they cannot challenge the laws ahead of the election, because there is not yet a victim. They’ve been told that fellow Americans impacted by Pennsylvania’s corrupt system cannot challenge, because of standing. Now they’ve been told that they cannot challenge after the election, because it’s after the election - and therefore moot.

Ortega on line one, asking the Democrats just how do they get away with this?

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and Justice Kavanaugh are true disappointments. Senator Feinstein needn't have worried about the dogma living loudly in Barrett. As for Roberts, I gave up on him years ago. Thomas seems the only one with any guts, and good for him. Perhaps it was his hard scrabble youth that gave him the courage to speak.  But as Wright writes:

In other words, we are punting the ball again. But let’s make no mistake -- this is “not doing nothing” with all respect to Justice Thomas. This is proactive, and it absolutely legalizes institutional voter fraud and neuters state legislatures in lieu of state courts. Lawyers gonna lawyer, I reckon.

The only other quibble I have regarding Justice Thomas’s statement is that actually no, we don’t expect more of our courts any more. This is exactly what we have come to expect. We saw Brett Kavanaugh emasculated in his hearing process, and clearly he hasn’t had enough testosterone replacement shots yet, and Amy Coney Barrett, the mom, seems worried about her kiddies at school. Cancel Culture 1, Constitution 0. Voters be damned.

At least we know where we stand. We can not count on the Court to protect our rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, of indeed any of our First Amendment rights. Nor can we count on the Court to defend our Second Amendment rights It is finally up to us, we the people.

Our Supreme Court is now no more an agent of a free people than similar courts are in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua. Our nation is becoming ungovernable, because there is no reason for a thinking person to have any respect for our institutions like the FBI, The Justice Department, or our courts on any level. We are facing dark days indeed.