While the world is paying attention to theatrical battles over President Trump’s executive orders and cabinet nominees, a largely unnoticed and potentially landmark case sits before the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. A petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to nullify the results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election sits on the SCOTUS docket.
A petition for a writ of mandamus is a filing imploring a Court to take mandatory action in the nature of public duty. The writ – filed Jan 18, 2017 by Diane Blumstein, Donna Soodalter-Toman, and Nancy Goodman – has been assigned docket number 16-907.
The main argument for the writ is that, per Article IV § 4 of the U.S. Constitution, it is the job of the federal government to keep U.S. territory safe from foreign invasion. The Constitution stipulates, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” The petition cites evidence of such an invasion, namely the Russian hacking, and asks that the entire 2016 election be nullified, all the way back to the primaries, on the grounds that cyber-territory in the U.S. was invaded with the intention of altering the results of our Presidential election. The petitioners seek an entirely new election.
Per Title 28 of the U.S. Code § 1251, SCOTUS has “original jurisdiction” over cases like this due to the involvement of a foreign state. There is no remedy for the foreign cyber-invasion, they argue, other than complete nullification.
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What is happening?
What scares me the most…
Everything that has been revealed this election year…Everything that We the People have demanded based on these revelations…
Our government has basically ignored us…
I don’t fear one particular candidate over the other anymore…either way, I now believe the end game has nothing to with them
Honestly… Fraud! I’ll say it again, Fraud! Whether by an individual or by an organization. Fraud did not stop this election. I’m talking about, on both sides (this illusion of choice). Why? Why did the government get shutdown because of Healthcare Reform but not for a racist candidate using taxpayer money for personal gain or for another candidate whose party officials rigged the election process? The same reason why there aren’t All Lives Matter protests when a child gets gunned down by those sworn to protect and serve. The same reason why video doesn’t indict but reaching for a wallet is grounds for execution.
What’s the end game?
I’m being fair here… I’m gonna vote for the person that needs to rent a stadium… Bernie is one that can beat Trump… I don’t need a poll to tell me that.
The Press Is Ignoring Bernie Sanders
On May 26, Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted his first major campaign rally since announcing his presidential candidacy last month. Staged on the banks of Lake Champlain in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont, the Sanders rally reportedly drew more than five thousand people, making it one of the largest campaign events of 2015, hosted by either a Democrat or a Republican.
But the sprawling rally didn’t cause much of a media stir. Rather than cover it as a major news event, the Washington Post ignored the rally in its print edition the next day, as did the New York Times, according to a search of the Nexis database. The network news programs that night covered the event in just a few sentences.
At a time when it seems any movement on the Republican side of the candidate field produces instant and extensive press coverage, more and more observers are suggesting there’s something out of whack with Sanders’ press treatment.
And they’re right.