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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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The Supreme Court denied injunctive relief on Tuesday to Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly in a one-sentence order that unceremoniously ended the Republican lawmaker’s bid to overturn his state’s election results. “What distinguished this case was it actually had an interesting question of law in it,” David argues on today’s show, in reference to the Pennsylvania state legislature’s alleged violation of the state’s constitution in 2019. That Rep. Kelly brought this lawsuit after the presidential election was another question entirely, David concedes, as was Kelly’s requested remedy. On the menu for the rest of today’s episode: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s new Supreme Court election lawsuit, Biden’s latest Cabinet picks, and the origins of “believe-Trump-no-matter-what” syndrome among once-respected GOP figures. Show Notes: -Supreme Court’s one-sentence order denying injunctive relief to Rep. Mike Kelly. -Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s new lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. -University of California-Irvine law professor Richard Hasen’s December 8 blog post on the Paxton lawsuit’s legal shortcomings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch podcast. I am your host, Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes, Jonah
0:06.0	Goldberg and David French, of course. This week we have so much to discuss. We actually
0:12.0	know what we're already talking about next week. So we are hitting up the Supreme Court rejecting
0:18.0	the Pennsylvania lawsuit that's sought to overturn the Pennsylvania election. Then we're
0:22.6	going to talk about the Texas lawsuit filed against Pennsylvania Michigan, Wisconsin in Georgia
0:28.3	that also seeks to overturn the election with the Supreme Court. We'll talk a little Biden
0:33.3	cabinet picks with his defense secretary announced and then we'll end with Jonah and why people
0:39.6	be cray. Let's dive right in. David coming to you first because we had a big day for the courts
1:01.3	yesterday. Why don't you start us off with the Supreme Court at circa 4 30 PM. Yes indeed. So
1:09.2	what we had going on this afternoon or yesterday afternoon was a lot of Trump supporters had hopes
1:18.3	that a lawsuit filed by Congressman Mike Kelly and others including Sean Parnell would perhaps
1:27.2	invalidate the Pennsylvania election. Now there wasn't really much hope here but what distinguished
1:35.2	this case from a lot of the other cases like the Sydney Powell Kraken case which is the big
1:41.6	vote fraud, dominion, vote system hacking, whatever cases that she filed in multiple states.
1:47.6	What distinguished this case is it actually had an interesting question of law in it. There
1:53.9	was an actual interesting legal issue here, something that perhaps should be adjudicated at some point.
1:59.2	In the interesting legal issue was that in 2019 that's a key date in 2019 the Pennsylvania
2:07.6	legislature changed Pennsylvania's voting an election laws to expand access to mail-in balloting
2:15.1	and the claim was that this change in Pennsylvania election laws violated the Pennsylvania Constitution.
2:21.3	Now fast forward to 2020 and the Congressman Kelly brings this after the election and then the
2:30.8	remedy that he seeks is the invalidation of the election. Okay so you take an interesting legal
2:37.7	question one that would have residents for a future election because you brought it after
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