Who needs to look at the history of Democrat Party cheating in the USA when they’re trying to pull the same crap as I write. This time they’re trying to steal back Bob Casey’s Senate seat, and so blatantly that they didn’t care about being captured on video, with the key quote coming from Diane Marseglia:

“…precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country. And people violate laws anytime they want. For me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention to it.”

Okay, so you could say that she’s doing a classic bit of civil disobedience, challenging a law she disagrees with and being willing to take the consequences. Except that the law in this case is around counting misdated mail-in ballots, the sort of crap that was actually enabled by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2020 but has since been outlawed by legislators and reinforced by the same court back earlier this month.

Aside from the letter of the law what about the spirit of it? Are they really going to argue that discounting such ballots is “voter suppression” that outweighs voter fraud? It would seem so.

Thankfully. three days after that video, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court finally did what they failed to do in 2020, and reinforced their earlier decision

The Court hereby ASSUMES its King’s Bench authority over the instant Application, see 42 Pa.C.S. § 502, only to DIRECT that all Respondents, including the Boards of Elections in Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia County, SHALL COMPLY with the prior rulings of this Court in which we have clarified that mail-in and absentee ballots that fail to comply with the requirements of the Pennsylvania Election Code, see 25 P.S. §§ 3146.6(a), 3150.16(a), SHALL NOT BE COUNTED for purposes of the election held on November 5, 2024.

I was amused by that very English reference of “King’s Bench Authority” as I thought even such phrases would have been verbotten after 1776? However:

The King’s Bench power is a discretionary power of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that allows it to act in extraordinary circumstances to address issues of immediate public importance… The term “King’s Bench” comes from the English Court of King’s Bench, and the power was imported to Pennsylvania when the courts were established in the 17th century.
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The Supreme Court shall have and exercise the powers vested in it by the Constitution of Pennsylvania, including the power generally to minister justice to all persons and to exercise the powers of the court, as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as the justices of the Court of King’s Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, at Westminster, or any of them, could or might do on May 22, 1722.

That last is actually written into the Pennsylvania statutes. Good to see there is still so much respect for English Common Law.

To his credit the Democrat Governor of the State, Josh Shapiro, also weighed in on the issue:

Any insinuation that our laws can be ignored or do not matter is irresponsible and does damage to faith in our electoral process…. The rule of law matters in Pennsylvania. … It is critical for counties in both parties to respect it with both their rhetoric and their actions.

Clap….. clap….. clap…… It would have been more impressive if he’d said this before the Court issued its opinion.

Meantime the man who, more than any other Republican on the ground, enabled Trump’s win, by registering tens of thousands of new Republican voters, Scott Presler, made it clear that he’s coming for these assholes as well:

Bucks County has been in the news a lot this year. Earlier, we flipped Bucks County from blue to red, and, in the first time in modern history, there are more registered Republicans than Democrats here in this county.

Number two, voters were disenfranchised in this county, and I want to thank Chairman Michael Whatley of the RNC and co-chair, Lara Trump, for suing to make sure we had three additional days of early, in-person voting. 
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And I have a message: Peacefully, we are coming for your seat in 2027 if you don’t resign today.