Supreme Court denies case seeking to remove Biden and reinstate Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Supreme Court has denied a longshot lawsuit from three brothers who sought to remove President Joe Biden from office and reinstate Donald Trump.

Brother Raland Brunson was listed as the plaintiff on the Supreme Court petition. The brothers said that members of Congress violated their oaths of office by failing to investigate fraud in the 2020 election.

"The complaint asks that the 387 members of Congress who voted to certify Biden’s election be immediately thrown out of office and barred from ever running again. Biden and Harris would also be removed from the White House and banned from running, as would former Vice President Mike Pence," the Salt Lake Tribune reported recently.

In an order issued Monday, the high court said that the case was "denied" but gave no explanation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-denies-case-seeking-to-remove-biden-and-reinstate-trump/ar-AA168C2v

[grumpyduck]

1. How did this even get on the docket?

[bluestarone]

2. EXACTLY!

I can't FN believe this!

[NutmegYankee]

5. Every case appealed to SCOTUS goes on the docket. Only 2-3% actually get heard. nt

[moose65]

10. Ridiculous

Anyone can file a lawsuit in federal court, I guess, and can appeal it if they have the money to piss away.

Let the MAGAs waste their money, I say!

[lees1975]

3. Denied but gave no explanation.

It was beyond words. Even this conservatively skewed court couldn't maintain its dignity and composure describing the kind of bottomless ignorance and stupidity represented by the plaintiffs in this case.

In civilized countries, the plaintiffs who filed that case would be put in straight jackets and sent to an insane asylum.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. How Did This Even Get To SCOTUS?

Shouldn't this have been laughed away as a baseless case within days of filing?
Or did it get laughed out & these 3 tools appealed to exhaustion?

[SCantiGOP]

6. See answer #5 above

[dpibel]

9. (1) Goofballs lost on appeal, and

(2) Goofballs had a filing fee.

That is what it takes to "get to SCOTUS."

Federal procedure, brief form:

Anyone with a filing fee can bring a suit in federal district court.

Any losing party with a filing fee can appeal the decision of the district court; court of appeals has to hear the case, although it doesn't have to pubish the opionion.

Any losing party at the appellate level who has the filing fee can file a Petition for Certiorari with the Supreme Court. Every year 7,000-8,000 people do.

The Supremes reject all but 80 or so of those petitions. In virtually every case that rejection occurs without explanation. Think about it: If the Supremes gave a 100-word explanation for each rejected petition for cert, they'd be writing 700-800,000 words a year just in explanations.

This case, which has been subject to several shocked and horrified threads on DU already, mostly represents the power of the internet. Someone (probably the goofball who brought the case in the first place) is hooked in enough to get the word out about this idiot case. Some other people on the internet have amplified that message to the extent that it has become a story in the actual media.

Back in the day, the goofball cases got cert quietly denied and nobody had to hear about it.

[TigressDem]

7. Huzzah!!

After 50 responses to frivolous election fraud lawsuits, the courts started doing the general slap/denied/dismissed etc... no explanation needed. See previous 50 responses, we are DONE.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_U.S._presidential_election

[underpants]

8. The Brunson Brothers (horns) on a show with Regis Philbin

[lindysalsagal]

11. It's not a court of any kind: It's The Gong Show. And that suit got the hook.