{"id":45513,"date":"2020-12-12T01:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T01:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45513"},"modified":"2020-12-12T01:59:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T01:59:23","slug":"scotus-delivers-the-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45513","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS delivers the KO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SCOTUS%20%23MAGA%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45494\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice.jpg 1600w\" 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 worn out, bushed, whipped, exhausted by all this legal wrangling, which means I am delighted beyond belief that the U.S. Supreme Court has put an end to Donald Trump&#8217;s challenge of a free and fair presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait. I should mention that Trump lost that election. President-elect Joe Biden will take office in about 39 days.<\/p>\n<p>SCOTUS rejected a specious lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that sought to get four states to throw out their election returns that went favorably toward Biden. The high court, in a brief summary statement, said that Texas could not interfere in other states&#8217; electoral process.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ba da boom!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More to the point, the court ruling stated\u00a0 that Texas lacked standing to pursue the case, saying it \u201chas not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the end of the road for Donald Trump, for his Trumpkin toadies, his cult of personality followers.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson once again comes in the form of the strongly conservative court ruling with dispassionate analysis what almost every legal scholar in the land had predicted it would rule.<\/p>\n<p>My advice now for Donald Trump: Shut the hell up about an election you lost; accept the results &#8230; <em>and go away.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SCOTUS%20%23MAGA%20%40JoeBiden&#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 worn out, bushed, whipped, exhausted by all this legal wrangling, which means I am delighted beyond belief that the U.S. Supreme Court has put an end to Donald Trump&#8217;s challenge of a free and fair presidential election. Oh, wait. I should mention that Trump lost that election. President-elect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SCOTUS delivers the KO<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7225,2505,6363],"class_list":["post-45513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-2020-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45514,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45513\/revisions\/45514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}