The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 in favor of Mississippi -vs- RNC that state legislature can decide how long after election day that qualified election ballots cast may be received. [PDF HERE] Essentially, federal election day is election day, but ballots can be received after election day for the length of time determined by state law.
Justice Barrett delivered the majority opinion, joined by Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson.
Justice Alito dissented along with Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
The Hight Court outlined that congress could change the ability of the states by changing the statutory language of the federal election law to require ballots be received by election day. As long as federal law does not outline the deadline for ballot reception, states can extend that process at their legislative discretion. THIS IS A HOT MESS FUBAR!
“The federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days thereafter; nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by election day.”
As noted by Samuel Alito in his well-written dissent, even during the U.S. civil war, soldier ballots had to be counted on “election day“, not days and weeks after.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney-Barrett have once again betrayed the foundational principle within constitutional language. It is infuriating.
So Pretzel Boy Roberts and Spiritual Guru Barrett lead the charge to cement mail in Voting…what a winner for cheaters! The arrogance of these judges is mind bending–as stupid as Roberts is…he who gave us ObamaCare and who couldn’t solve the leaker in the Dobbs case–what a great and dynamic leader!
Ask any structural engineer how a building goes about collapsing. The impacts, the repairs, additions, harmonics, etc. added up to do such damage and destruction. Such events (over time) weakened the structure; yet, no one noticed is a common response.
Today’s fools, useful idiots (that obviously includes illegals–democrats’ bastard kids in so many ways) want a “living Constitution” along with a “packed Supreme Court” because they are so much smarter and educated than our founders. Forget the lessons of history, narcissists must march forward.
Who needs an education where writing, reading and arithmetic are the priorities? The proof is in the pudding, right? Right!
Obviously, wisdom reigns supreme in the Supreme Court. I’m gonna need to dust off my “crystal ball” for the truths I seek or find out where the Wizard of Oz might be!
Welcome to our July 4th, 250th celebration. The “Funny Farm” is all around me and I can’t find my blanky! Then again, do I have enough ammunition? Yes, Martha, the Earth is indeed flat…help, I’ve fallen over the edge!
As much as I want SCOTUS to always rule the way I want them to, I see the logic behind the majority decision.
Asking SCOTUS to decide how long after Election Day absentee ballots can be counted is asking SCOTUS to legislate from the bench. It is the responsibility of Congress to write laws; it really is that simple. The Constitution gives states wide latitude on how they conduct elections.
Since at least COVID, Congress has curled up in the fetal position on matters of electoral integrity. Until voters give them a swift kick in the Pelosi, nothing will change.
Didn’t the SCOTUS take it upon themselves to ‘rewrite’ obamalamadingdongcare, such that it magically became a “tax” and therefore ‘constitutional’?
Most of SCOTUS is a disgrace, betraying The Constitution, The Republic, and We The People.
The ruling is more ammunition for use to pass the SAVE America Act.
The ruling give’s President Trump more arguments to compel Congress to make the SAVE Act better by incorporating more language based on what we learned from the ruling and more power pressure to pass it.
Praying we turn this negative into a much bigger positive. Turning negatives into positives is something God is quite fond of…
Adversity is not final; rather, it is often a precursor to a greater divine purpose.
Well said. Great ray of light on news I was immediately angered to read. I join you in prayer. God always wins.
The other thought I have is, we the people are now “next man up” to recruit and elect at the state level and all levels down ballot, committee chairs/execs and candidates who will relentlessly ensure a fair and reliable and trustworthy electoral system.
Does the SAVE America Act include language that codifies an end-date for receipt of ballots?
I ask because Barrett’s language seems to be “we can’t put language where Congress did not.”
Tell me this isn’t goat@#$%#$. So we’re going to allow the West Coast scum bums, Mininoplace…NE to take their time counting ballots until the numbers are …right?
Would the SAVE America act circumvent this with one day voting…one day count?
…’These are the times that try men’s souls…’
“Plagued by Fraud”: Obamacare Recipients Include Over One Million People Without Social Security Numbers, RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz Say
Roughly 19 million Americans are enrolled in Obamacare. An alarming percentage of them may be fraudsters.
RFK Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz revealed on Saturday that over 1 million people enrolled in Obamacare plans lack Social Security Numbers, announcing their findings in a video posted throughout social media. Kennedy called the data “a glaring warning sign for fraud” while blaming previous presidents for failing to create proper vetting systems.
Oz says “rogue agents and other bad actors” have been enrolling “unsuspecting Americans in health plans they never signed up for,” and using fake identities to collect fees from insurance companies for “selling plans they never legitimately sold.” They allegedly select plans without premiums, so people are unaware they’ve been enrolled. Kennedy and Oz are “working with insurers to cancel every policy that should never have been issued and recover every taxpayer dollar that was fraudulently paid out.”-TCN
No, they wanted the Justices to confirm that the Constitution said day, one election day. When the Justices confirm what the Constitution says then they are not legislating from the bench.
Article 2:
“The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the DAY on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.”
The Framers understood day as 24 hours.
Here is an issue I thought of: They use the term “Absentee” ballot. I believe the definition of an “Absentee” ballot is one that is requested and is verified. IMHO “Mass Mail in Ballots” do not meet the definition of an “Absentee” ballot and therefore are not covered by this ruling. I would proffer that any “Mass Mail in Ballot” must be counted on election day otherwise be void.
The primary purpose of Socialism is extraction (or, at least, that is what funds everything else).
Nothing gets done in Congress without payment, but the advent of Trump has come to mean that they are now doing their damnedest to defend that system by resisting the desires of citizens and ensuring that nothing useful gets done at all.
I’m not sure that California cancelling elections by extending their ballot reception deadline to 2076 would be embarrassing enough to change that — not given what has failed to embarrass them already.
Well, so much for election integrity. I am not sure about the basis for the decision, but I do understand the outcome.
Well then the GOP needs to get busy collecting thousands or millions of mail in ballots so counting after election day becomes a fair cheating game. If states can decide, then maybe mail-in ballots can be counted for 3 or 4 months.
Assumes the system would treat citizen-supporting cheating the same as institutional cheating. Almost all evidence contradicts that proposition.
And, of course, cheating is not necessary where citizens govern, nor will they be willing to do it.
It would be amusing to watch, though, if only to see them argue their case. “Our ‘reinforcement’ IS democracy. Your reinforcement is anti-democratic voting fraud.”
Unfortunately, there is a certain rationale to it. States are ordinarily the determiners of their election processes. Congress can overrule them – but, so far, it hasn’t.
I therefore think that it is correct(!) to rule that Congress must be the one to formally decide. And that, until it does, each State must decide for itself.
To borrow a democratic talking point; time to pack the court!
No, its time to ignore the Supreme Court.
There is a reason why the Framers intended it to be the weakest of the three branches.
NOPE
There are other remedies as noted by other commenters
So those engaging in fraud can see the results on Election Day, fill out ballots accordingly, and those fraudulent ballots can then be received up to x days after the Election Day.
Jesus.
Get rid of Mail in ballots FFS and have a simple and secure ballot integrity/verification system implemented.
Can’t spell banana republic without Uniparty fraudsters.
Justice Roberts pees sitting down.
Guess we’ll have to fix that….
To continue the “election system” devised and weaponized by Obama and Holder is a national embarrassment! The really egregious offense is our “legislative system” is too lazy, conflicted and busy taking bribes to design and implement a system that is actually fair, secure, accurate and robust! It is simply beyond their ability and they really don’t care; neither political party!
POLITICS IS AMERICA’S GREATEST PROBLEM!
If you go to the post office on election day and drop off your ballot, it’s possible that it gets postmarked the next day. Do you lose your ballot? According to Mississippi law you do — therefore that law is unconstitutional since it overrides federal law. So the correct decision was to strike MS law and state that provisions were not made to account for delayed postmarks and therefore must use another method, i.e. registered mail. Which has the bonus of reducing ballot fraud.
Well, on the other hand, this ruling now puts a premium on WHO cast the vote, as THE determining factor of which ballots are legal and which are not.
The burden of proof now falls entirely on confirmation of voter identification. It’s all about WHO, not when.
And isn’t that what our social contract requires from our government (state and local) anyway?
“Keep fighting!”
Trump could declare that the USPS, a federal service, is prohibited from handling ballots at all. Why not?
The SCROTUS strikes again!
Well I’m sure congress will jump hip ho to the changing of the voting time. Same group who refuses to get the Save America Act voted into law will surely find it important to make sure states don’t cheat. Bet the commies are celebrating right now. What next I wonder.
Berrett at it again! She is taking orders from overseas.
JUST Think of This as ” a Tax ”
then Robert’s Vote WILL Make Sense
the boy from Long Beach Indiana, that attended La Lumiere School and then Harvard
– NOTHING SAYS Elitist More than a House looking West over Lake Michigan; an Elite College Prep School and then Harvard
Cake ANYONE ?
I said years ago that someone should just print an obscene amount of ballots for a Democrat candidate and over vote in the state.
Show how all of this is nothing but a scam.
Make sure the ballots are 1000 more percent than the people that are in the state.
The choosing of Electors is a simple process. Prior to the First Tuesday after the First Monday in November, Federal election day, the political parties nominate their candidates for President and Vice President and a set of “electors.” These names are sent to the appropriate Secretary of State, usually not later than early September, to be place on that State’s ballot. The vote for Pres/VP is held on the specified date, and the results actually select the slate of electors of the winning party in the election.
On the First Tuesday after the Second Wednesday in December the electors representing the winning Presidential candidate meet, usually in the State capital, and record there votes, which are certified by the State and forwarded to Congress.
Congress counts those votes on January 6 of the next year, and the President and Vice President are officially elected.
It is up to Congress, not the Supreme Court, to change the rules.
The Democrats Communists stole the Los Angeles election from Spencer Pratt in the days after the election when they knew how many ballots they needed to harvest to win.
Please pass the Save America Act for here in LA voting does not count.
It’s time.
As Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts has ignored, abandoned, and failed in his duty as head of the Judicial Branch of the United States Government to set the example of rendering decisions, based first and foremost on Constitutional Law; he has further through his leadership allowed the usurpation of powers of the Executive to accumulate primarily to the Judicial branch, and secondarily to the legislative.
His actions, or lack thereof, have evidenced his violation of oath to said Constitution, and thus demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt, his failure to operate under the principle of good behavior as stated in Art III, Sec 1, Cl 4, and is therefore impeached from his office.
I remember back when Amy C Barrett was nominated. I did not like her then and now, I despise her. I do not expect to see a positive ruling in the birthright citizenship case. When the day comes that the court makes their birthright citizenship decision public I fully expect the welfare state will be completely solidified and there will be very few in the house and senate willing to stop it.
This country is in an absolutely intolerable state, when every issue of national consequence is subject to the whims if 9 black robed judges, whose composition fluctuates between far left and left leaning most of the time. The very fact that these people are easily identified as liberals and no one seems to think this is wrong, is proof that our entire legal system is broken, likely beyond repair. We will never vote ourselves out of this predicament, and certainly not if what happened in 2020 is never exposed and rectified. I am done voting as long as there is such a worthless and pointless system in place. It is a total waste of my time, effort and emotions to even bother caring who pretends to run for “election”. It is a sham from top to bottom!
I just think it’s funny that the party that currently controls the White House, Senate, House, and a majority on the Supreme Court keeps yapping about “election integrity”.
Shady stuff.
There has to be cutoff line for when ballots have to be counted. If not, then some red states should join the game and extend the ballot counting for a year or two. This will allow President Trump to stay in office long after 2028.