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2021-02-24 Home Front: Politix

Our Supreme Court Goes Full Nicaragua in PA Election Case

[American Thinker] For a couple of years, my wife and I escaped Obama’s America by owning a Pacific Ocean hotel in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. The irony was that in supposedly socialist Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega's government left us alone far more than government did in the supposedly free country of the United States of Obama.

Still, while Ortega 2.0 might have shed most of his socialism, he had not shed his lust for power, and the job of making sure he never lost again was that of the Chief Justice Roberto Rivas Reyes of what is in effect the Nicaraguan Supreme Court. I’m not sure who was actually more powerful or corrupt -- President Ortega or Justice Rivas -- but Rivas’s was bigger. His motorcade, that is, and he owned the two biggest homes on the two most elevated lots in San Juan del Sur, the nation’s top coastal town, a few hundred yards from our hotel.

Today I’m not sure whose court is more corrupt vis-a-vis election law: Nicaragua’s court or our Supreme Court. It appears that Donald Trump has remade the U.S. Supreme Court -- in Mitt Romney’s image! (I am not blaming Trump, just stating the obvious.)

While I think the United States Supreme Court stumbled badly in its 7-2 rejection of the Texas case on standing last year, the refusal to "grant cert" (i.e., to take the case) yesterday in a Pennsylvania case is horrifying beyond words. I could say that our election laws are now full-on banana republic, but I’d hate to insult bananas that badly.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-24 00:56|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 SCOTUSis an Abomination.

Posted by newc 2021-02-24 01:37|| 2021-02-24 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Duck and run.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-02-24 06:49|| 2021-02-24 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep'per, gotta love that 6-3 majority.

Posted by Clem 2021-02-24 09:02|| 2021-02-24 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-24 09:08|| 2021-02-24 09:08|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 ... I am not religious but i am moral, ie i try to see the correct path and take it. I believe we need a constitutional convention.

Posted by irish rage boy 2021-02-24 09:25|| 2021-02-24 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Courts declined to hear vote integrity challenges early because the question was not ripe, then a day later they declined because it was moot - too late for any remediation. The real reason was they did not want the responsibility (blame) of making the election decision like they did with Bush.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-02-24 14:59|| 2021-02-24 14:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Why I say within 15-20 years there will be less than 50 stars on Old Glory.

Posted by Clem 2021-02-24 17:13|| 2021-02-24 17:13|| Front Page Top

#8 I believe we need a constitutional convention. Constitutional conventions, like constitutions, are only for a moral and religious people. The USA has deteriorated far below that level. I hope and pray there are other forces at work now.

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