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SCOTUS abandons Congress and the American people : Comments
By David Singer, published 7/1/2021The US Supreme Court seems unwilling to enforce the law as established in Bush v Gore.
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Your following character assassination of myself - which has nothing to do with the message delivered in my article - is despicable and cannot be left unanswered.
“David has thrown his finely honed legal brain out the window.
He believes Trump - so lack of Evidence doesn't count.
David is better placed than American Courts to consider American matters - it seems.”
My “finely honed legal brain” was pointing out two inescapable facts:
1. that there were two petitions filed in the Supreme Court with requests their hearing be expedited and judgements be delivered before 6 January - to neither of which Petitions the Supreme Court had responded.
2. That such failure by the Supreme Court to respond would abandon Congress and the American people to settle their election differences on 6 January without the benefit of a ruling by the Supreme Court as to whether only State legislatures could change voting rules and procedures under the US Constitution.
The failure of the Supreme Court to so act led to the incredibly disturbing and violent scenes on 6 January that can never be justified or condoned - no matter how great the frustration or feeling of aggrievement.
The Court will probably now say that the two Petitions are moot because the election has been decided.
If that was the Court’s strategy - it has come at a terrible cost to the rule of law and the expectation that the law is democracy’s answer to settling disputes between people with claimed grievances.
When SCOTUS was most needed - it went missing in action.
Spend your time addressing this message Plantagenet rather than shooting the messenger who has delivered it to you.