- Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:19 am
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He said the Supreme Court, among other courts, heard the challenges to the 2020 presidential election results, twice.
False. The Supreme Court declined to hear the election challenges, and never considered the evidence.
H.R. 1/S. 1, the “For the People Act.” would radically change American democracy, nationalizing elections and make permanent changes to voting rules that would virtually ensure Democrats never lose another election. They would end all state voter ID rules.
He also claimed Repubs were “targeting people of color,” though voters of every race favor voter ID and other Republican voter integrity policies.
Biden also attacked what he called the “big lie” that the election was stolen. To do so, he claimed that the Supreme Court, among other courts and legislatures, had heard the merits of the challenges to the 2020 election result. He said:
The 2020 election was the most scrutinized election ever in American history. Challenge after challenge brought to local state election officials, state legislature, state and federal courts, even to the United States Supreme Court. Not once. but twice. More than 80 judges, including those appointed my predecessor, heard the arguments. Every case. Neither cause nor evidence was found.
That is wrong. No judge heard the cases on their merits, and anybody who went to law school would know the difference between ditching a case procedurally and hearing its substantive merits. The latter was never done; the Roberts court claimed instead that Texas had no judicially cognizable interest in whether other states obeyed their own election laws, which was a weak way to ditch the case but the Sup Ct is final rather than perfect.
False. The Supreme Court declined to hear the election challenges, and never considered the evidence.
H.R. 1/S. 1, the “For the People Act.” would radically change American democracy, nationalizing elections and make permanent changes to voting rules that would virtually ensure Democrats never lose another election. They would end all state voter ID rules.
He also claimed Repubs were “targeting people of color,” though voters of every race favor voter ID and other Republican voter integrity policies.
Biden also attacked what he called the “big lie” that the election was stolen. To do so, he claimed that the Supreme Court, among other courts and legislatures, had heard the merits of the challenges to the 2020 election result. He said:
The 2020 election was the most scrutinized election ever in American history. Challenge after challenge brought to local state election officials, state legislature, state and federal courts, even to the United States Supreme Court. Not once. but twice. More than 80 judges, including those appointed my predecessor, heard the arguments. Every case. Neither cause nor evidence was found.
That is wrong. No judge heard the cases on their merits, and anybody who went to law school would know the difference between ditching a case procedurally and hearing its substantive merits. The latter was never done; the Roberts court claimed instead that Texas had no judicially cognizable interest in whether other states obeyed their own election laws, which was a weak way to ditch the case but the Sup Ct is final rather than perfect.