Justice Clarence Thomas writes dissenting opinion: 'The court's decision is incorrect'
Congressional Republicans are redoubling their support for the SAVE America Act, a bill that has left Washington in gridlock for months, after the Supreme Court ruled states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. The 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee rejected a GOP-led push to end laws that permitted mailed […]
Political commentators criticized President Donald Trump Sunday after CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins posted a photo showing the Kennedy Center's signage still obscured by scaffolding and tarps. In May, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to remove Trump's name from the Kennedy Center facade after it was installed without proper approval as part of an effort to rebrand the venue as the Trump Kennedy Center. The Trump administration responded to the court order by erecting scaffolding and tarps, with some analysts theorizing the move was designed to create the appearance of compliance while concealing Trump's name indefinitely. "The Big Bang Theory" creator Bill Prady commented, "Donald Trump’s ego is as fragile as a china eggshell."Former Republican National Committee official Douglas Heye wrote, "We are governed by children." Editorial writer Franklin Harris posted, "This administration's level of pettiness is truly mindboggling."Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
President Trump on Monday responded to the Supreme Court's decision on mail-in ballots. The post President Trump Responds to Mail-In Ballot Loss at Supreme Court appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Tensions boiled over among House Democrats Sunday after Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s proposed an amendment to nix $3 billion in military aid to Israel. During a […]
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to their cellphone location data, tossing out a ruling against a man convicted in a Virginia bank robbery case. The justices held 6-3 that law enforcement’s use of a geofence warrant to identify Okello Chatrie was a search under the…
A divided US Supreme Court expanded the president’s power to fire top government officials in a blockbuster decision that puts the White House firmly in control of potentially dozens of agencies that have long operated independently. Bloomberg Law Host June Grasso explains what the decision entails. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Supreme Court delivered a consequential setback for the commander-in-chief and executive power.
Justice Samuel Alito's legal reasoning in a landmark voting rights case was mocked as "braindead" and blamed on his presumed consumption of conservative media.The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law by a 5-4 vote allowing election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after it, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the majority opinion finding that grace periods still met statute's requirement that voters make their choice by election day."That occurs so long as election day is the deadline for individuals to vote — as it is in Mississippi," Barrett wrote. "But the election-day statutes do not set a deadline for ballot receipt, so they do not prevent Mississippi from counting ballots postmarked before election day yet received afterward."Alito authored the dissent, where he complained that "majority's holding spawns a slurry of troubling election-law questions and risks further undermining Americans' confidence in election integrity," and one particular argument stood out to critics."What the election-day statutes demand is that this authoritative choice be made on election day," Alito wrote. "If ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated."Many legal experts disagreed and faulted Alito's logic in the case."Alito’s dissent in the vote counting case makes perfect sense if you think of it from the perspective of a braindead Fox News viewer who thinks Dems are 'cheating' when more vote get counted and a Republican lead in the count is erased," argued writer Adam Serwer."Alito sounds a little bit like someone who fell in love with the chatbot here," pondered reporter Ted Mann. "The votes are inanimate. The voters are not.""Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means 'the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated' – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen," opined MS NOW's James Downie. "The 'choice' doesn't occur at the time of counting!""If you vote in person at 8:59 PM on Election Day but you ballot isn't counted until one or two days later, the choice was still made on Election Day," noted author and podcaster Doug Gordon. "Why would a ballot postmarked on Election Day but not received until one or two days later be any different? (Answer: Because Alito has brain worms.)""Alito 100% thinks that the 'blue shift' in vote counting represents a dynamic change in the outcome," wagered New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie. "To borrow from @kalimurray.bsky.social this is not a smart man.""I would love Alito to explain to me how he thinks elections worked in the 1790s," challenged civil rights lawyer Johsua Erlich.