Below is my column in The Hill on the growing distemper on the left after the loss of both houses and the White House in this election. In Pennsylvania, the politics of despair has stripped away all principle and pretense. There is a concerted effort to reelect Sen. Bob Casey by any means necessary. Even the Washington Post is now criticizing the effort.
Here is the column:
“People violate laws any time they want.”
Those words, shrugging off an alleged unlawful move last week, did not come from some Chicago gangbanger or Washington car thief. Those words of wisdom came from Democrat Commissioner Diane Marseglia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
They came in response to the fact that the Democratic majority on the election commission had decided to ignore a binding state Supreme Court ruling in an attempt to engineer the election of Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.).
Rather than prompting a degree of introspection, the loss of both houses of Congress and the White House has had a curious effect on many Democrats, dropping any pretense of protecting democracy over partisanship.
Despite polls showing that the public trusted former president Donald Trump more than Vice President Harris in combatting threats to democracy, Democrats made “saving democracy” the thrust of this election.
The polls reflected a certain common sense of the public when harangued with predictions from President Biden, Harris and a host of politicians and pundits that this would likely be our last election. Few believed that after over two centuries as the most stable and successful democracy in history, all three branches would collapse in unison and embrace dictatorship. Even fewer believed the predictions of the rounding up of homosexuals, journalists and political critics for camps in what some described as an American Third Reich.
American voters are not chumps and what they saw were strikingly anti-democratic positions from those claiming to be the defenders of democracy, including:
• Seeking to strip Trump from ballots under an unfounded theory rejected unanimously by the Supreme Court.
• Fighting to block opponents of Biden from ballots in the primary and general elections.
• Suing to keep Robert F. Kennedy on ballots after his withdrawal in swing states, in order to confuse voters and reduce the vote for Trump.
• Calling for blocking dozens of incumbent GOP officials and legislators from ballots as “insurrectionists.”
• “Protecting democracy” through the most extensive censorship in history and the blacklisting of opponents.
• Engaging in open and raw lawfare in the prosecutions of Trump in places like New York.
Each of these efforts ultimately failed to stop Trump and was opposed by a majority of voters even before the election. So now, Democrats are dropping the pretense for open partisanship.
That was evident in Bucks County, when a motion arose to reject a challenge to count provisional ballots, including undated or invalidly dated mail ballots.
It should have been easy. To its credit, the majority-Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court had already refused a Democratic push to change the rules shortly before the election and to ignore the plain language of the election laws.
In ordering the rejection of ballots without dates, Justice Kevin Doughtery (joined by Chief Justice Debra Todd) wrote a concurrence declaring “This Court will neither impose nor countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election.’ We said those carefully chosen words only weeks ago. Yet they apparently were not heard in the Commonwealth Court, the very court where the bulk of election litigation unfolds.”
It is apparently still not being heard. In the Bucks County hearing, Marseglia spoke as she and Democratic Board chairman Robert Harvie, Jr., dismissed the earlier rulings in order to accept ballots without required signatures or mandatory dates. She declared that she would not second the motion to enforce the rulings “mostly because I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country and people violate laws any time they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention to it.”
That was a lot of words to say that she does not really seem to care if this is lawful. For his part, Casey has shown the same abandon as he clings to his Senate seat at any cost.
That cost, in this case, was an alliance with Marc Elias, the controversial Democratic lawyer at the center of the infamous Steele Dossier scandal. Elias has been sanctioned in court and criticized for his work to flip elections. He is known for baselessly blaming voting machine errors for electing Republicans and pushing gerrymandering plans rejected by the courts as anti-democratic.
Casey is unlikely to change the result without counting defective or challenged ballots. Fortunately, law and precedent “does matter in this country.” There are still officials who can transcend their political preferences to maintain the rule of law. After the last presidential election, many Trump appointees ruled against the former president, and many Democratic judges rejected the effort to strip Trump from ballots.
That does not mean that Democrats who value the weaponization of law will not continue to embrace lawfare warriors like New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).
Others will use the rage of these times as a license to ignore legal and ethical obligations altogether. They are arguably the saddest manifestation of our political discord. They are people who have not just lost faith in our system but in themselves. They have become untethered from any defining principle for their own conduct. This election has left them adrift in a sea of moral and legal relativism, with only their rage as a following wind. They cling to that rage as reason vanishes like a distant shore.
For the rest of us, there is work to be done as a nation committed to the rule of law. We cannot win at any cost when that cost is the very thing that defines us.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Turley is a truth teller!
Lmao.
*AT LEAST professor Turley has not resorted to the use of profanity as nearly every other newsperson and pundit has to communicate with the lowly masses. Sean Hannity fits in something disgusting on radio now. Today was—> puke, projectile vomiting. What an image!
I take my leave.
Turls: love when you go full hack while trying to ignore the efforts of the right to ignore precedent on so many fronts. One might say the fact you’re laughed at in serious legal circles is a well deserved outcome. Party on!!
Thanks, Anonymous: I don’t even bother to read the details of the swill Turls writes anymore–life’s too short and I know that it’s just anti-Democrat manure written to appease the MAGAs instead of serious legal discourse. Take today’s headline: Turls accuses Democrats of “dispensing with pretenses and principles”. Where to start? Trump dispensed with “pretenses and principles” when he started the insurrection after he lost in 2020; when he refused to attend Biden’s inauguration; when he refused the pro forma meeting with the incoming president; when he stole classified documents, refused to return them, moved them around to prevent them from being collected and lied about returning all of them; when he pulled every trick in the book to delay, delay, delay trial on federal charges, filing one frivolous interlocutory appeal after another.
The latest effort to “dispense with pretenses and principles” is Trump trying to bully the Republican Party into convening and then calling a fake recess so he can make “recess appointments” all to bypass the “advise and consent” provision of the Constitution. The reason for trying to bypass this critical role of the Senate is to avoid the truth about his historically awful choices of unqualified and dangerous syncophants from becoming public. Today’s headline is that Hegseth paid off a woman he sexually assaulted to keep her mouth shut. Yeah, I’m sure Trump can relate to that. He also opposes women serving in combat roles and blacks and other minorities in the armed services. Oh, and he also has a White Supremacist tatttoo, which he proudly displays.
Then, there’s former heroin addict, RFK, Jr., whose deceitful lies about nonexistent dangers of measles vaccination caused the deaths of over 80 Samoans who stopped getting their kids vaccinated–this led to an emergency push to get kids vaccinated. Rubella is very highly contagious, and if a woman in early pregnancy acquires the virus, her fetus may suffer brain damage or be spontaneously aborted. He also lied about thimerosol causing autism long after this preservative was removed from vaccines: Abstract from The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics: July-September, Vo. 15, (3), 173-181:
J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2010 Jul-Sep;15(3):173–181.
Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines and Autism: A Review of Recent Epidemiologic Studies
Anne M Hurley 1,2,✉, Mina Tadrous 1,2, Elizabeth S Miller 2
Abstract
Although epidemiologic evidence has not supported the hypothesis of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism, concerns continue about pediatric exposure to mercury through vaccine administration. A statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the US Public Health Service in 1999 prompted the removal of thimerosal from many vaccines. In 2004, the Immunization Safety Review Committee of the Institute of Medicine rejected the hypothesis of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.
RFK, Jr. has not retracted his lies that vaccines are dangerous. He ignores science.
Then, there’s Tulsi Gabbard, tapped to lead our intelligence services. From “Time” Magazine:
“Gabbard has little to no intelligence experience. In her eight years in Congress, she never served on the House intelligence Committee, having instead been assigned to armed services, foreign affairs and homeland security committees.
Gabbard emerged as a national figure in 2012, when she became the first Hindu, first American Samoan, and one of the first female combat veterans to be elected to the chamber. Before joining Congress, Gabbard had deployed to Iraq in 2004 as part of a medical unit in the Hawaii Army National Guard and is currently a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Over the last decade, Gabbard has stood out for her foreign policy views. She has long-been skeptical of American intelligence analysis and has taken public policy positions that echo Russian propaganda.
While in Congress in 2017, Gabbard met with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad after the U.S. had broken diplomatic relations with the country over his bloody crackdown against his own people. Russia is a long-time backer of Assad and has supplied troops and weapons to prop up Assad’s government during Syria’s 13-year-long civil war. Gabbard said the U.S. should not be supporting opposition fighters in the country, which were being assisted by American intelligence services.
Later that year, after the Syrian military attacked civilians with sarin and chlorine in the town of Ltamenah in northern Syria, Gabbard echoed Russian denials that Assad was behind a chemical weapons attack. A United Nations investigation later concluded that the Syrian Air Force dropped the chemicals.
Weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Gabbard posted a video espousing a disproven conspiracy theory that alleged pathogens could leak from biolabs in Ukraine, a theory advanced by Russia as part of its propaganda attempt to press for a ceasefire. Then-Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Gabbard had embraced “actual Russian propaganda” and called it “traitorous.” Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Gabbard was “parroting fake Russian propaganda.”
That wasn’t the first time Gabbard was accused of trying to advance Russian interests. In 2019, Gabbard launched a longshot presidential bid that drew favorable coverage from Russian news and propaganda sites. Hillary Clinton suggested Russians were ‘grooming’ a Democrat to run as a third-party candidate and help Trump win re-election. It was widely assumed that Clinton was referring to Gabbard, who accused Clinton of trying to “destroy” her reputation.
Two years ago, Gabbard announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party, which she decried as “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.” Last month, she announced at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina that she was a Republican.
Gabbard has little to no intelligence experience. In her eight years in Congress, she never served on the House intelligence Committee, having instead been assigned to armed services, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. ”
Turls has nothing to say about any of these actual examples of Trump “dispensing with pretenses and principles”, which is why so many of us in legal circles have no respect for the man.
You’re something for sure. I read your first statement and skipped to the last. The first you denigrate Turleys articles as swill, then your last promotes the idea that he is not respected in legal circles, that you of course are part of(s/). Having said, here you are daily with your quiver of bullsheeeet.
Here you are, what does that say about you?!
Traveler,
How drunk do you have to be to login and comment as Gigi, then use Bug’s insults like “Turls?” Pretty, effin, drunk! Oh, and then claim it is in legal circles? DRUNK!
On a daily basis! Inclusive of yet not limited to! The problem for all liars is that they can’t keep up with their own lies, they continue to morph. When speaking truth, the message and facts always remain the same.
WHAT did I lie about? Name it. Gabbard has NO intel or administrative experience, and has, in fact, espoused views contrary to the mission of our intelligence service and has repeated Russian propaganda–these are FACTS–not opinions. She has no business even being allowed access to classified information, much less trying to run our intelligence services. There are several former intelligence service people who are of the opinion that our allies will stop sharing information with us if someone so unfit and unqualified gets the reins of intelligence. Who can blame them? So, if our allies get wind of a possible plot to attack us, they may well choose not to share that information because she might expose them as the source because she cannot be trusted. We could end up with another 911. THAT’s what happens when you shove unqualified and untrustworthy people into a job they are not qualified to do. Do you think the intelligence community would respect her when she is clueless and not only that, unqualified? Do you think the rest of the world that are our allies would trust her, given the fact that she repeats Russian propaganda?
Last week, when I wrote that Trump was demanding that whoever became Senate Majority Leader agree to immediately call a recess so he could bypass the “advise and consent” provisions of the Constitution, I was called a liar and other choice names, including demeaning language for female genitals. I’m still waiting for an apology. I’m still waiting for Turls to address Trump circumventing the Constitution.
It’s a FACT that RFK, Jr. was a heroin addict, that he spread fear and distrust about the safety of measles vaccine in Samoa, and that, as a result, there was a measles outbreak in that country that killed more than 80 people, most of them children. It is a FACT that RFK, Jr. has no medical background, that he continued to insist that thimerosol was still being used in vaccines years after it was discontinued, and spread the lie this was causing autism. WHY would any sane person turn over the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food & Drug Administration to someone who not only is unqualified for the position, but who has promoted dangerous health misinformation?
Then, there’s Hegseth, who opposes diversity in the military, opposes women in combat roles, and who bought off a woman he sexually assaulted. Are members of our armed forces supposed to respect someone like this?
I haven’t even started on Gaetz. He’s so conflicted that he couldn’t qualify to work at the FBI, much less run it. He quit as a member of the House in a feeble effort to evade the report on his sexual misconduct from the House Ethics Committee that was due to be released last Friday.
I am not a liar–you are a MAGA, and just like your hero and the MAGA media you rely on, when you cannot have a civil discourse on a topic because the facts are against you, you attack the opposing party.
Civil discourse, what the fuk would you know of civil discourse. You don’t report facts, you sling mud and disingenuous falsehoods on a regular basis. Where’s your analysis of Bath house Barry and Larry Sinclair? Where’s your analysis of Kamala Harris rise into San Fran politics viaWilly Brown’s one eyed Willie? You’re a lying hack, watch what happens, your worst fear. American citizens get a better deal.
I asked for facts— you don’t have any. I accused you of using the MAGA tactic of attacking someone who says things you can’t refute when you don’t have contrary facts— you’ve proven my point. Diverting to cheap attacks on Harris and Clinton is not responsive.
And, BTW, it turns out as votes continue to be counted that Trump got less than 50% of the popular vote and only 6 more Electoral College votes than in 2016. And his coattails didn’t help much— in 4 states he won, the Democratic Senate candidate won. Turls was exaggerating when he claimed that Trump has a mandate— far from it—but Trump still lies and claims he won an “historic victory “. He barely squeaked by on a campaign based on lies, baseless promises, misogyny, racism and xenophobia.
Keep that in mind as he destroys our economy with his tariffs, cuts school lunch programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and the unqualified syncophants destroy our intelligence community, the DOJ, FBI, the FDA, the NIH and the CDC, and while he goes on his retribution tour.
I told you guys months ago that Gigi is a creation of the Lawn Boy Elvis bug. Its transparent.
He thinks he is clever, but his puppets are easy to spot.
“which is why so many of us in legal circles…”
Here, Gigenius again alludes to being a lawyer, after previously claiming to be a nurse. Yet she didn’t know what the 12th Amendment says. Was clueless and couldn’t even recognize the correct answer when told.
“She” also constantly impugns the SCOTUS with all manner of vile and despicable accusations, while often “cautioning” Turley that he is in jeopardy for criticizing sitting judges, on ethics grounds. Yea, she’s an attorney, all right.
The day Gigenius is a lawyer is the day I’m a goddam astronaut—LT Dan
Apparently you MAGAs have some problem in differentiating between real people and fictional characters in a movie. Trump doesn’t understand that Hannibal Lector is fictional as is Lt. Dan from “Forrest Gump” and Co. Jessup in “A Few Good Men “, whose line “you can’t handle the truth “ is frequently quoted by you MAGAs. These characters and their dialogue are the product of screenwriters. No wonder you MAGAs think Trump is capable of being the leader of the free world.
Thanks, Anonymous: I don’t even bother to read the details of the swill Turls writes anymore–life’s too short
Gigi, now that you’ve confessed you never read “the swill” that your tolerant host Professor Turley writes before posting your lies… explain to everybody why you come here, Gigi, The Fire Ho Of Democrat Lies?
If your life is too short to read it, why do you consume what time you have left in your crack ho life to waste posting crap that doesn’t change a single mind among Professor Turley’s other guests here?
What a pathetic example of an oxygen thieving waste of skin and rations you are!
@Gigi
Spare us. At this point we all know you and ‘Anonymous’ (and a couple of others) are the same person. Find something better to do. 🙄🙄
James: who appointed YOU to address anyone who comments on this blog?
Remember it only counts as “democracy” if the correct result occurs.
S@@ew your “democracy”.
I do not want to understand, reconcile or dialog with these people, I want a divorce.
Trump despite his faults has forced the left to show their true hand.
THEY HATE US AND WISH WE WERE DEAD. And what they would have done to us if possible, covid showed that.
As they see things but for evil “bigots” like us, they would already have their utopia.
antonio
Dear Mr. Turley, I really appreciate GEB’s thoughts and so many of the others who take the time to comment here. I have often wondered how the folks who vote democrat could like what the Party states about who is in and who is out of the running. Take the examples cited by GEB. It seems to me that the left expects their people to agree with then and if not, then comes the browbeating until they are back in line.
Ignoring law, precedent, decency? Easy to understand the moment one realizes that a Democrat now has more in common with Robespierre or Beria than with Kennedy or Truman.
Kerensky famously said there were no enemies to the left. He died in exile in New York, perhaps still unaware that nearly everyone to the left was an enemy. Trotsky, on the other hand, learned it with absolute clarity. Fortunately the American people finally seemed to be learning who the enemy truly is in the last election. It is time to restore law, our borders and our history and halt the processes of destruction. It’s a big job but God grant it is finally underway.
Dennis McIntyre is feverishly figuring out how to drop his first Daily Deuce of the day after reading this column from his dear personal friend, “Jonathan” (Professor Turley to the rest of us who are also his guests here).
Will it be a convoluted declaration of how these lawless Soviet Democrats are ignoring specific decisions from the court because they’re “defending our democracy from DJT”?
A whataboutism claiming Republicans somewhere did exactly the same thing? Counting disqualified ballots despite court decisions saying the law did not allow that?
Or will it be the old reliable when a column backs him into a corner like a rabid feral cat?
Just go completely off topic with another “BBBUUUTTTTT…. MUH TRUMP!!!!! BBBBUUTTTT…. MUH FOX NEWS!!!!!
Whereupon delivery he will immediately morph into GiGi…
I thought trying to find more votes after an election was a federal crime ?
Where is the special counselor ?
I fully support Casey;’s challenge to the election. I do not expect it to change anything, but I have no problem with election scrutiny.
Our elections should be as transparent as possible.
That is how we tell that the law is being followed.
BTW the Bucks county election commissioners are not a court, precident is NOT an issue.
They are obligated to follow the law. The law has been established.
Only the highest court can decide that a past binding decision was incorrect.
Further what would this commisioner want as the alternative ?
Count any ballot no matter when it is received or how dubious the identification information is ?
I would note PA does not have mailin voting – it has absentee voting by mail – allegedly as a one time thing in an emergency during covid.
NORMALLY and according to PA law, an absentee ballot must be cast at the county election office.
Ballots leaving the direct oversight of the state is unconstititional in PA.
The PA state constitution – like 38 others requires Secret ballots.
The requirements of a secret ballot are
1). an official ballot being printed at public expense,
2). on which the names of the nominated candidates of all parties and all proposals appear,
3). being distributed only at the polling place and
4). being marked in secret.
John Say – PA has had universal no-excuse mail-in ballots since 2019, when they passed Act 77. The legislature of that state wrote the act to require only three things for a mail in ballot: put it in a secrecy envelope inside the outer envelope, sign the outer envelope, and date the outer envelope. The issue on which the state Supreme Court ruled is that ballots with an undated or incorrectly dated outer envelope is invalid and thus cannot be counted. This lawless commissioner is blatantly refusing to obey that ruling.
As long as he is not breaking the law, Casey has the right to pursue his election strategy. I personally believe he fails in the end due not being able to count the bad mail in votes. This is not really about losing right now as much as getting to within the margin of error to force a recount. Casey looks like he has lost a tough race and refuses to concede, which is his right. Trump did it too in 2020. Let it runs its course and the chips will fall where they may. Although I will say how eerily quiet the Democrats are when they screamed the last time. Amazing how important Democracy is until it is your bull getting gored.
The issue is not Casey – it is the Buck County Election commission.
Casey/Elias can argue that these ballots should be counted – though the rules of professional conduct require Elias to clearly note that he is arguing against existing caselaw.
But the Bucks County Election commission is obligated to follow the law, and the caselaw on this issue – which is prefectly clear.
Further the law and caselaw are OBVIOUSLY correct.
When does an election end if there are no rules ?
This is not about Casey – it is about the lawlessness of the Bucks county Election commission. And to a lessor extent Elias.
Republican lawyers challenging 2020 were disbarred and threatened with jail for less than Elias is doing.
And Trump still faces federal and state charges for asking the GA SOS to find more votes.
Which is exactly what Casey and Elias are trying to do.
If Casey concedes and stops trying to count bad ballots, it would go no further. The Bucks County Election Commission is not following the law as proscribed and thus, this will fail. Either way, Elias is orchestrating this maneuver as is his Modus Operandi. If he is not careful, he may very well end up in trouble too.
Casey has this right to contest, but he may harm his standing with the public later if he comes across as petulant. The history lesson was Arlen Spector who did not want to leave, jumped parties and then failed in the election anyway.
Casey was already IN the required margin without this. Pay attention 🙂
Wally tried this: Casey was already IN the required margin without this. Pay attention
Perhaps YOU should pay attention. Or are you faking lack of comprehension?
When did being within the required margin mean that you can desperately include disqualified votes after a court has clearly told you that you cannot do that?
Do you realize a mandatory recount and violating a court order not to include disqualified votes are two completely different things?
Or is more explanation required beyond what Professor Turley already provided in this column that you presumably read?
I stand corrected. Did not realize that had already started the recount. Trying to make up ballots by insisting on bad ballots is a fail waiting to be proclaimed. It is typical clutching at straws. I wonder if the next move is the election was stolen.
I still stand by the statement Casey has a right to his election strategy. He also has a right to try and get the bad ballots counted as a method of challenge. I still think he should be wary after this next step unless this is his last hurrah. If he ends up looking bad, this could be his end.
The recount has not started. It starts in two days (11/20). This is the first count.
Remember Kim Davis, the county clerk who flouted the law and defied a court order? She was jailed for contempt of court.
Goose meet gander.
Re: “She was jailed for contempt of court.
Rev'”She was jailed for contempt of court.” In this, the question is was the PA Supreme Court in the form of a ruling or an order? A finding of contempt would have to require the latter and moved for same by a complainant with standing.
This column is a rhetorical equivalent of the rhetorical question. Lawlessness and criminality has been the identifying brand of the new Soviet Democrat party since Obama claimed he was actually elected to fundamentally change the country and drove a stake through what was left of the old Democrat party while doing so.
Few who vote for Soviet Democrats like Obama, Biden, Harris, Schumer, Pelosi, etc could tell you who James Webb is without scrambling to ask Google for the answer.
Whether legislating via his phone and pen from the Oval Office rewriting and amending his signature Obamacare, refusing to enforce immigration law, sending Jack Smith from the DoJ to take out his most dangerous Republican opponent to reelection in 2012, illegally hiring a Putin spy to write the “Trump Russia Dossier” and then sending Attorney Generals and FBI Directors to perjure themselves to the FISA courts in order to use that dossier to hunt Trump and anyone near him.
It’s not what they say; it’s what they do. The people in this most recent example of complete contempt for the law when it suits them is just a continuation of what they have been doing since 2008. Of course, Americans shouldn’t believe their lying eyes – they’re actually defending their democracy.
Perhaps this is another rhetorical question: why WOULDN’T they continue with their contempt and ignoring of court decisions and existing laws?
It works for them more often than not, doesn’t it? Marc Elias is still an honorable member of the bar, no matter what he does to “defend our democracy”.
As true today as ever:
“If it weren’t for the double standard, Democrats would have no standards at all”.
“Nurse Diesel” stated that there are dangerous sick people running around
The most depressing element of this story is that it is occurring in Pennsylvania, the location of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Founders drafted and signed the very document securing the freedoms of democracy the Democrats now seek to incinerate.
Pennsylvania Democrats have now forfeited any claim of right, ability or competence to govern a free people in a constitutional republic such as remains in this nation, including in the State of Pennsylvania. Stated otherwise, Democrats there — as well as…, candidly…, anywhere in the country — should never again be allowed within 52 factorial light years (yes, Virginia…, a really long way…) of governmental authority.
Full stop.
“They cling to that rage as reason vanishes like a distant shore.” Describes Mark Elias perfectly.
Trump’s criminal conviction in NY was based on the idea that he falsified business records to hide another crime. That other crime was based on a NY law against conspiring to interfere with an election through illegal means. Is there a similar law in PA or an analogous Federal law? It’s hard to imagine a more blatant illegal interference with an election than counting votes knowing that doing so is against the law as recently declared by the PA Supreme Court.
These people need to be fired ASAP and stripped of any rights to ever be in government again, at the very least.
My question, are county elections commissioners, or county commissioners who act as elections commissioners. immune from arrest and prosecution? And if not, are there not statutes which suggest such investigatory decisions or resolutions conform to state law? What specifically authorizes county elections commissioners to violate law and court orders which direct the application of law? (Note then this is not a matter of “precedent.” Is this not, rather, an admission, is the commissioner here actually saying, they’ve admitted such unlawful ballots in the past as a matter of precedent?) Might that then explain the 2020? Which appeared, particularly in reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as one of the most fraudulent national elections in our history.) Secondly, what of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, how does the Secretary certify such known-to-be fraudulent county results? What could possibly induce the Secretary, as a matter of law, to accept and certify a fraudulent county certification?
I find I must also at least question Turley’s very likely inadvertent use of the ‘ic’ suffix here, as in, “the majority-Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court had already refused a Democratic push to change the rules” (a grammatical mistake that appears so frequently today)… there is absolutely nothing even remotely democratic to the Democrat party. This is just another example of that.
“Might that then explain the 2020? Which appeared, particularly in reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as one of the most fraudulent national elections in our history.”
Exactly!
“Turley’s very likely inadvertent use of the ‘ic’ suffix here, as in, “the majority-Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court had already refused a Democratic push to change the rules” (a grammatical mistake that appears so frequently today)”
The problem with your analysis is that the official name of that national party organization, its national committee, and its state parties, along with their incorporation and registration documents, all use the word “Democratic”. I very much doubt that any voters are confused by the “ic” to the point that it influences their vote. I think the best counter to this situation is to continue to emphasize that our nation is intended to be a republic, not a democracy. That both deflates any acquired positivity by one major party, and strengthens the identification with our founding principles of the other.
I wonder where the Pennsylvania State Police are? Bucks County DA? Pennsylvania AG?
They better pray Gaetz isn’t Attorney General.
Maybe precedent doesn’t matter to the modern left but it sure as hell *does* to the rest of us.
God, some of these people are vile, and this absolutely confirms the shenanigans of 2020 and 2022 (particularly 2022 and the justice appointments. After the covid travesty governor’s’ offices and downvote seats likely would have flipped much sooner). Really: our modern dems are evil, pure and simple. As for their brainwashed voters who weren’t simply indoctrinated – what in God’s name happened to your minds?
Unbelievable, but I’m grateful they are telling us in full light of day exactly who they are, and that in spite of all of the dishonesty and chicanery and arrogance – they were whistling in the dark the whole time with complete disdain for the American people or our wishes or process (as many of us suspected, bow confirmed).
That’s me, haste typo in email address.
Right. Precedent like Roe v. Wade
Right. Precedent like Chevron v. NRDC
This is Chuck Schumer being bi-partisan!