The Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump’s latest assault. The result of the November 3 elections does not change. The highest judicial body returns to the sender the appeal brought by the Texas Attorney, Ken Paxton, supported by colleagues from 17 other states, 126 Republican MPs and, of course, Trump. The Court yesterday did refused to consider the lawsuit filed against Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. With a statement of a few lines he establishes that: The matter does not fall within the tasks assigned to the Court by the Constitution. Furthermore, it is noted that Texas does not have a recognized judicial interest in challenging the rules of other states in electoral matters. Among the nine robes, two Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, have dissociated, arguing that in reality the matter falls within our jurisdiction. However, Alito himself points out that this does not mean accepting the Texan disputes on the merits. .
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The decision probably definitively breaks the judicial guerrilla initiated by the incumbent president, immediately after Joe Biden’s victory. Trump counted on the majority of conservative judges: six against three. But not even the magistrates he himself appointed, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett, followed him. In the appeal presented by the Texan Paxton, on 8 December, we read: Confidence in our electoral procedures is sacrosanct and binds our being citizens and the States of the Union all together. Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have destroyed this trust and compromised the security and integrity of the elections … We now ask the Supreme Court to intervene and correct this gross error.
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If the Supreme Court shows great Wisdom and Courage, the American People will win perhaps the most important case in history, and our Electoral Process will be respected again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020
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On the merits Paxton disputes the count of the ballots that arrived after the November 3 election. This operation, in reality, took place in several states, not only in the four decisive for the electoral outcome. And, everywhere, the rules were followed, considering only the votes that arrived in the offices before November 3. The reaction from the authorities of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin had been furious. The Attorney General of Texas was accused of wanting to overthrow democracy in the United States. Paxton’s initiative immediately appeared unrealistic: a challenge to common sense, even before the laws of the United States. It had never happened that a state called into question the legislation in force elsewhere. Federal and state judges had already dismissed more than 40 appeals and, prior to yesterday’s rejection, the Supreme Court had flatly dismissed the disputes concerning alleged irregularities in Pennsylvania. But behind Paxton is Donald Trump. The incumbent president had called together all his possible supporters within the country’s institutions. Here then is that Texas has been joined by Republican prosecutors from seventeen other states, to the delight, via Twitter, of Trump. They are worth listing: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia. In three of these states, Lousiana, Kansas and Oklahoma, the Democratic governor. It will take some time to understand if this is the map of the last Japanese or the signal of a new super Trumpian movement that is starting to organize itself in the country, with strong links in the Washington Congress and in the Red States.
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Trump can count on Tex Cruz. The Texan senator had made the rounds of television to support the good reasons of the president in office. He had also offered to plead the case in the Supreme Courtroom. Cruz is a former prosecutor and has just written a book on the American justice system. But now nothing is done. In the House, however, 126 Republican deputies have signed the Paxton appeal. In the new House, which will meet on January 3, Republicans are expected to have 213 seats against 222 Democrats. Trump forced the conservatives to count and then divide. But the end result could be to weaken the conservatives’ negotiating strength at a crucial stage like the one ahead, with the Biden administration poised to pour billions of dollars in public spending on the country. Evidently, Trump does not care about everything or is not useful for his future plans.
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12 December 2020 (change 12 December 2020 | 05:10)
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