{"id":45483,"date":"2020-12-10T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45483"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:14:15","slug":"sanity-must-prevail-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45483","title":{"rendered":"Sanity must prevail &#8230; or else"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=2020election%20%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump%20%40MAGA%20%40KenPaxton&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Paxton-Houston-Public-Media.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45191\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Paxton-Houston-Public-Media-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Paxton-Houston-Public-Media-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Paxton-Houston-Public-Media.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am a firm believer in judicial sanity, which is to say that sane minds are likely to prevail in the face of <em>insane<\/em> legal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, we have a U.S. Supreme Court roster of justices who will get to decide whether a lawsuit brought forward by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has merit and is worth hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial sanity would seem to dictate that this is a slam dunk for the nation&#8217;s highest court. It should toss the matter aside. My hope for the sake of judicial sanity prevailing is that it does so with a terse statement that says in effect: <em>Texas has no standing to bring this case to this court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paxton, who appears to be a lousy lawyer, wants the SCOTUS to overturn the results of four states that voted Nov. 3 for President-elect Joe Biden. From the get-go my question has been this: <em>How in the name of election meddling can one state purport to intervene in the electoral affairs of another state?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Therein might lie the case for judicial sanity presenting itself. The high court should tell AG Paxton to mind his own bee&#8217;s wax and butt the hell out. He cannot bring a lawsuit against four states that all have certified the results of their presidential balloting results.<\/p>\n<p>I would say that sanity is a sure thing to prevail, except for this: 17 states&#8217; attorneys general have joined Paxton&#8217;s clown show and signed on as intervenors in this idiotic lawsuit. All the AGs have swilled the Donald Trump Kool-Aid and are seeking &#8212; and this is as rich as it gets &#8212; to <em>overturn<\/em> the legitimate electoral results of a free and fair election.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the U.S. Constitution. I believe in the power of reason. I continue to believe that judicial sanity is going to have the final say on this profoundly <em>un-American<\/em> legal challenge.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=2020election%20%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump%20%40MAGA%20%40KenPaxton&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I am a firm believer in judicial sanity, which is to say that sane minds are likely to prevail in the face of insane legal challenges. 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