In the case of the Texas lawsuit against four states that voted for Biden, hoping for a reprimand from the SCOTUS bench was always a long shot, but at least it’s not a disaster:
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a long-shot bid by President Trump and the state of Texas to overturn the results in four states won by Democrat Joe Biden, blocking the president’s legal path to reverse his reelection loss.
The court’s unsigned order was short: “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”
Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas said they did not think the court had the authority to simply reject a state’s filing, a position they have taken in the past. But they said they would not have allowed Texas more than that.
“I would . . . grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue,” Alito wrote in a statement joined by Thomas. [WaPo]
No remarks from Trump’s prize judges, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, either. Will angry remarks be made about their failure? A word to the US Marshals: keep an eye out for threats to those Justices. I’ve never heard of a Justice being assassinated, and I don’t want to start now.
Will Trump give up? I’m inclined to agree with the view that this is the Shearing of the sheep phase of his political life, and the money will dry up if he concedes now.
So he’ll fight on – hopelessly, painfully, to no legitimate purpose, but he’ll suffuse his coffers with wealth stripped from the credulous far-right fringe who call themselves conservatives, rich and poor alike, and all quite possibly in order to satisfy his creditors. The next few weeks may prove bumpy.
In the next hundred years, many Ph.D.s will be awarded to historians for research on this Presidency. And political science types will be exploring the various rips and tears that this has opened in the flank of the governance system called Democracy, and its incompatibility with religion.
