There's a school of thought that since their jurisdiction is exclusive, the Supreme Court has an obligation to hear /any/ case a state brings no matter how flawed it might be.  Their feeling is that since there's no higher power to appeal to, that they /have /to hear the case so that it gets heard.  Thomas and Alito are in that school of thought, and that's why they expressed the opinion they did.

My reading of it is that the only disagreement was whether to tell Texas to go away before or after they're allowed to file their complaints.  Either way, the court unanimously told Texas to pound sand.  The only way this is unclear is if someone willfully interprets it that way.  If someone is inclined it interpret it that way, then they would have been unhappy with any outcome. There was absolutely zero chance that the Supreme Court of the US would overturn one state's election at the behest of another. Especially based on the argument that "their election processes hurt us."  If they did that, then similar suits would happen every 4 years henceforth.


On 12/12/2020 10:31 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
We need to have scotus do their damn job and get case law. If they keep punting for politics it will get stupid. This team when one snaps out you dont get some cross dresser popping through a crowd to bike lock someone and scurrying off, you get Oklahoma city. They need to shut the shit down or pay the cost of the product they purchased.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 6:24 PM Bill Prince <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Deep within this troll, the force runs.


    bp
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    On 12/12/2020 4:10 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

    Yes, thank you.

    I don’t know what was more bizarre, that music video, or Chuck
    being the one who sent it. Who knew.

    *From:* AF <[email protected]>
    <mailto:[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
    *Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2020 5:55 PM
    *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
    *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots

    bp
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    On 12/12/2020 2:55 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

        Is there a mind blown emoji?

        -----Original Message-----

        From: AF<[email protected]>  <mailto:[email protected]>  On 
Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF

        Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 4:30 PM

        To:[email protected]  <mailto:[email protected]>

        Cc: Chuck McCown<[email protected]>  <mailto:[email protected]>

        Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots

        https://youtu.be/yModCU1OVHY  <https://youtu.be/yModCU1OVHY>

        -----Original Message-----

        From: Bill Prince

        Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 3:28 PM

        To:[email protected]  <mailto:[email protected]>

        Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots

        First place I heard it was from Molly Wood on Make Me Smart:

        https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en  
<https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en>

        <https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en>  
<https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en>

        bp

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        On 12/12/2020 12:03 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

            I was not familiar with the term banana-pants.  A Google search 
yields

            lots of results, mostly photos of banana pants, as well as some 
songs,

            none of which shed much light on the subject for me.  I assume it

            means cra-cra?

            -----Original Message-----

            From: AF<[email protected]>  <mailto:[email protected]> 
 On Behalf Of Robert Andrews

            Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 1:42 PM

            To:[email protected]  <mailto:[email protected]>

            Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots

            This was similar to how the south leaders hauled all the regular

            people into the civil war.  Yes they did a good job stirring things 
up

            before.

            On 12/12/2020 11:19 AM, Bill Prince wrote:

                The people who should really be looking at this are the 
citizens in

                the states who think it's appropriate for their AG to sue 
another

                state's election results.

                The suit was what I would call banana-pants.

                bp

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                On 12/11/2020 4:19 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote:

                    All these craven lackeys got a big fuck you from the 
SCOTUS...

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