[PJMedia] The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... stayed a trial judge’s ruling that would have ended Title 42 and has, for the time being, allowed the rule to remain in place. The court issued an unsigned 5-4 opinion that was a victory for the 19 states that had sued the federal government to keep Title 42 in place.
Title 42 is a 1940s-era rule that limits immigration and asylum seekers during a national health crisis. It was originally put in place by Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... in March 2020 and severely restricted the number of people seeking asylum by expelling all but a fraction of those who showed up at the border.
Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier. Of course Corn Pop is a real person.... eased the restrictions, but about 65% of all asylum seekers who showed up at the border were still expelled.
The stay says nothing about the lawsuit by GOP states seeking to keep Title 42 in place.
New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...:
The court said that it would hear arguments in the case in February and that the stay would remain in place until it issued its ruling. The justices said they would only address the question of whether the 19 mainly Republican-led states that had sought the stay could pursue their challenge to the measure.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil M. Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
The court’s order was a provisional victory for the 19 states that had sought to keep Title 42 in place, saying it was needed to prevent a surge of border crossings. "The failure to grant a stay will cause a crisis of unprecedented proportions at the border," lawyers for the states wrote in an emergency application, adding that "daily illegal crossings may more than double."
News Agency that Dare Not be Named:
The precise issue before the court is a complicated, largely procedural question of whether the states should be allowed to intervene in the lawsuit, which had pitted advocates for the migrants colonists against the federal government. A similar group of states won a lower court order in a different court district preventing the end of the restrictions after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in April that it was ending use of the policy.
It will be until at least the summer before we get a definitive decision on whether the rule will stay or go. But there are hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers within a couple of hundred miles of the U.S. border, and pressure will build on Biden to find a way to allow them to enter the country.
This was just round one. Round Two promises to be a knockout for one side or the other.
Courtesy of Skidmark, dropped in the hopper before the ruling came down Thursday evening:
The huge facility is being constructed in preparation for a surge of migrants
The Trump-era Title 42 was expected to end on Tuesday at 11.59pm, triggering a spike in crossings
Title 42 enables border agents to turn asylum-seekers away upon contact in the name of slowing the spread of COVID-19
But the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday afternoon that Title 42 will stay in place
Legal battles will be heard in court in 2023 before the decision is revisited So the tents should sit empty for months before the border opens, or possibly months and months.
#4
In this Supreme Court case the Administration argues that the pandemic is over even though they just extended the emergency. None of us are fooled. Only for of the justices are fools.
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12/27/2022 22:20 Comments ||
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[PJ] It was, perhaps, a small miracle that Kari Lake’s election challenge was allowed to go to trial, but the tough part still lies ahead: proving beyond a reasonable doubt (Count II) that ballot printer problems on Election Day were intentional, designed to affect the results of the election—and that they, in fact, did—and (Count IV) that additional votes were allowed to be counted in violation of the County Election Manual.
On Wednesday, Lake’s team took a huge step toward doing that.
When asked by Lake’s attorney Bryan Blehm if the county knew on Election Day how many ballots had been submitted by the voters, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer testified that they did not. According to Richer, individual polling places did not tally the number of votes cast — an apparent violation of state law.
Related: Kari Lake Calls for Maricopa Election Officials to Be ’Locked Up’
This is significant because Lake’s lawsuit claims, among other things, that between Nov. 9 (the day after Election Day) and Nov. 11, the number of votes the county reported having counted in the election increased by nearly 25,000 — which exceeds Katie Hobbs’ alleged 17,000-vote victory.
"Highlighting the chain of custody failures ... is the fact that two days after Election Day was completed, Maricopa County found more than 25,000 additional ballots, whereas properly followed chain of custody procedures would require Maricopa County election officials to know the exact number of ballots submitted by the day after Election, November 9, 2022," Kari Lake’s attorney explained in their legal brief.
"On Election Day, it would’ve been easy for you to figure out how many ballots you received," Blehm told Richer.
"Well, we had to get them all in and it was quite a process throughout the night," Richer claimed.
"You can look at the forms and add the numbers. Correct?" Blehm asked.
"They’re not counted at the individual loading locations," Richer explained. "They are counted when they get back to MCTEC [the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center] and then they are recounted at Runbeck."
"Does anybody know, when those ballots leave the voting centers, how many are in the bins?" asked Blehm.
"When the early ballots leave the voting centers, no, they are not counted at the voting centers," Richer admitted
"Nobody knows how many [ballots] are in the bins when they arrive at MCTEC. Correct?" Blehm asked.
#4
We will never know the true voting numbers as long as any 1 political party in power has control of the counting, auditing and verification system.
It should be plain and simple, when fraudulent voting, tampering or failure to properly count can be shown. The election results for that poll location should be immediately voided.
With mandatory felony level jail time for those deliberately violating the voting rights of others.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 8:01 Comments ||
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#8
Lake was a bad candidate and she's getting worse all the time now. Same people who hated on me for saying that about Larry Elder and Herschel Walker will hate on me now.
I'm still right...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 8:02 Comments ||
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#9
Even poor candidates have a right to an honest defeat.
#13
Well, GOPe has to think about "compliant" candidates. The left knows all theirs will vote in lockstep.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 8:31 Comments ||
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#14
The reason Sinema and Manchin have not had "accidents" is that when the time comes, they will fall in line. Watch for the vote to kill the filibuster (which itself is a false hope for those wanting a two-party gummint)
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 8:33 Comments ||
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#15
I believe the best case scenario was a Lake loss with obvious election shenanigans (as happened) followed by court losses and appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court so that any legal results apply to every state.
#19
It seems like there should be consequences for running consecutive elections that stood out with respect to illegality and incompetence throughout a nation where there was quite a bit of it in 2020. Everyone predicted that Maricopa County would have issues and they exceeded expectations. There ought to be accountability for that. There won’t be, but there ought to be.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
12/27/2022 11:23 Comments ||
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#20
^ Who's in charge? Not you or me...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 11:25 Comments ||
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#21
We're at a point where quality of candidate is meaningless. Murcek, did you have the chance to hear Hobbs speak? She's pretending to be an 8 yr old girl. It's not convincing, it's cringe inducing but it's what she does. Her interiew with Telemundo should have been the polical equivalent of the Falaise Gap, but here we are today. The Dems ran candidates who were pretending to be a little girl, one who pretended to be cognizant, and one who pretended to be alive and they all WON. Hell they've had a fake Indian for decades. And now we got the GOPe running fake candidates in NY. If Santos can win, Lake at very least deserves an honest accounting.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
12/27/2022 12:04 Comments ||
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#22
Whenever Donk attorney Marc Elias shows up before or after an election, look out.
#23
So, Rex, you think our candidates should talk like 8 year old girls too?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 12:23 Comments ||
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#24
The. Whole. F*cking. Point. of elections is to eliminate the unworthy. Giving a drooler a "fair chance" does not help our cause.
Grow The F*ck. Up!
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 12:31 Comments ||
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#25
^Tell that to Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
12/27/2022 12:47 Comments ||
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#26
I am tired of Mitch identifying the worthy candidates. Maricopa County has demonstrated that we have dirt-bags, incompetents and sleepers inside our wire. Portman is the Ohio example - Mitch would call him worthy. I would also call him worthy. Worthy of what is where Mitch and I disagree. It is time to delouse our country from the precinct level. I can think of 1.3 T reasons for a tar and feathers U type cell with a 30 second Takt Time.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
12/27/2022 12:48 Comments ||
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#27
Tell that to Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats.
No. It's up to primary voters. In states where dem voters get to pollute pub primaries we need to outthink them again. In states where they cant, we need to stop taking the Akins, Moores, Walkers, Elders and Lakes seriously.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 13:04 Comments ||
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#28
#23 The point being that GOP candidates you mentioned were infinitely better than those they lost to. Yet, in those same races in those same districts where we all saw the same election BS go on right in front of our eyes, those GOP candidates lost by exactly those same processes that the "conspiracy theorists" said would take place and that includes the active backstabbing by the RNC. Given that environment, a perfect conservative candidate couldn't get elected dog catcher.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
12/27/2022 13:27 Comments ||
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#29
Rex, you wanted to vote for any of those freaks, I could feel sorry for you. Or I could figure your sensibilities are damaged. I'll go with the latter.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 13:34 Comments ||
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#30
We only got the zombie retard in Pissholevania because Trump endorsed Oprah's boyfriend. Think about it.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/27/2022 13:43 Comments ||
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#31
So where are the republicans on this? Why the silence. They are just as criminal as the dems in running out all but the Goldwater/McCain criminal elites.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
12/27/2022 17:52 Comments ||
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...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
[PJ] It was, perhaps, a small miracle that Kari Lake’s election challenge was allowed to go to trial, but the tough part still lies ahead: proving beyond a reasonable doubt (Count II) that ballot printer problems on Election Day were intentional, designed to affect the results of the election—and that they, in fact, did—and (Count IV) that additional votes were allowed to be counted in violation of the County Election Manual.
