RNC Files Emergency Application in Supreme Court on Pa. Question

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rnc-supreme-court-ballots/2024/10/29/id/1185879/

The Republican National Committee has filed an emergency stay application with the U.S. Supreme Court after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court voted to allow provisional ballots for those who had improperly cast mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.

Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that voters in the state who had improperly cast their mail ballots, such as not using a secure envelope, would be permitted to cast a provisional ballot on Election Day.

But state law does not allow for such provisional ballots.

The RNC's filing noted that Pennsylvania law does not permit provisional ballots under such circumstances and has accused the state's highest court of seeking to rewrite state law to fit their members' political preference.

"When the legislature says that certain ballots can never be counted, a state court cannot blue-pencil that clear command into always. And here, the General Assembly could not have been clearer," the RNC's attorneys wrote.

RNC Chair Michael Whatley said in a statement: "Pennsylvania law has critically important safeguards to ensure every legal vote is counted properly. We have filed an emergency application in the Supreme Court to preserve those safeguards. Pennsylvanians' mail ballots must be protected for our country's most important election."

Judge Samuel Alito, who handles emergency appeals arising from Pennsylvania, ordered the parties to respond to the RNC's application by Wednesday.

The RNC is seeking a ruling by Friday in advance of next week's election. As noted in The Hill, the case is one of four election-related emergency motions at the Supreme Court currently pending.

>>21857281

Gues we now know who the party of the KKK is.

Judge Keeps N.C. Voter Registration Case in Federal Court

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/north-carolina-voter-registration-lawsuit/2024/10/29/id/1185872/

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled against a Republican-led attempt to remove more than 225,000 voter registrations in North Carolina, keeping the case in federal court after a district judge attempted to send the case back to state court.

The Republican National Committee and the North Carolina Republican Party have requested the courts order the state's elections board to remove 225,000 voters from the state registration rolls, claiming those voters are "ineligible" to vote in the state.

Republicans claim the North Carolina State Board of Elections failed to properly register these voters by using a form that did not require a driver's license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number.

Earlier this month a federal judge in Wilmington sent the GOP claim to a state court because of an alleged state constitutional violation, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, ruled this week the district judge was "improper" in sending the case back to a lower court, meaning the case will remain in federal court.

"Here, the State Board refused to perform Plaintiffs' requested act — striking certain registered voters from North Carolina's voter rolls — on the ground that doing so within 90 days of a federal election would violate…the Civil Rights Act of 1964…and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993," Judge Nicole Berner, a Joe Biden appointee, wrote in the appeals panel's ruling.

"These are ‘law[s] providing for equal rights,'" the judge wrote, noting the existence of a statute that allows for the removal of ineligible names from voter rolls. "We thus reverse the district court's remand order and return this matter to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion."

In a concurring opinion by Judge Albert Diaz, a Barack Obama appointee, the court found that the RNC and North Carolina GOP proved the threshold for standing in the case "made by the barest of threads," adding, "This lawsuit began in state court before being removed quickly to federal court. That removal should have prompted a fundamental jurisdictional question: Does the plaintiffs' complaint plead the necessary … standing ‘to get in the federal courthouse door?"

He concluded, "The district court's opinion didn't consider this issue."

GOP Rips 'MAGA Democrats' for Invoking Trump in Campaigns

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gop-maga-democrats-trump/2024/10/29/id/1185892/

Republicans are calling out endangered "MAGA Democrats" trying to get themselves reelected who continue to sidle up next to former President Donald Trump in their campaigns in the hopes of attracting undecided voters, the Washington Examiner reported.

Vulnerable Democrats from both chambers on Capitol Hill are spending millions in TV advertising, touting Trump policies they say they agree with to praising him for legislative pieces of their own that he signed during his first term.

National Republican Congressional Committee press secretary Will Reinert called them "MAGA Democrats" who are running ads "better suited for a [Saturday Night Live] skit than a serious congressional campaign," he told the Examiner.

The list of Trump-embracing Democrats is extensive:

Rep. Jared Golden, Maine

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin

Sen Jon Tester, Montana

Sen. Bob Casey, Pennsylvania

Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Michigan

Casey recently launched an ad embracing Trump's tariffs and saying he "bucked Biden to protect fracking."

A Baldwin ad praised Trump for signing her "Made in America" bill. Slotkin began in August, running an ad touting Trump signing her law on drug prices.

Tester appealed to "lifelong Republicans" in an ad while Brown earlier this year touted a bill of his Trump signed to stop drugs at the border.

In Ohio on Monday, a union supporting Brown released an ad linking the Democrat to the other sitting senator from Ohio — vice presidential nominee JD Vance.

"Sen. Brown puts party politics aside and fights for our workers and our safety so Ohio doesn’t ever get railroaded again," says the ad, showing a side-by-side photo of Brown and Vance.

The Senate Republican fundraising arm blistered Democrats for voting to twice impeach/convict Trump and stonewalling his "agenda at every turn" only to latch onto his battleground popularity with the election one week away.

"Now that they can see the writing on the wall, they’re trying to rewrite history," National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Philip Letsou told the Examiner in a statement. "These Democrats have no respect for their own voters, and that’s why they feel so comfortable flagrantly lying."

>>21857399

KEK! Only 2 or 3 people deep?

>>21857459

The rig is on!

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>>21857600

Red state here, only waited 30 seconds to vote, of course it was the second day of early voting.

>>21857778

Rigging in process.

I like this one!