{"id":1683379,"date":"2022-10-11T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683379"},"modified":"2022-10-11T10:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:50:57","slug":"supreme-court-backs-republican-in-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballots-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-backs-republican-in-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballots-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Backs Republican in Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-backs-republican-in-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballots-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683379&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated an appeals court decision that required\u00a0Pennsylvania to count mail-in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ballots\">ballots<\/a> even if there is no date on the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit with instructions to dismiss the case as moot,\u201d wrote\u00a0Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/101122zor_5426.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), siding with David Ritter, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for a judgeship.<\/p>\n<p>They also threw out a U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals\u2019 ruling that allowed the counting of mail-in ballots in the race that Ritter had sought to remove because voters did not write the date on the ballots. Ritter lost his 2021 bid to serve on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas\u00a0after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/elections\/mc-nws-pa-undated-supreme-count-20220610-hc7z3gfdazdddfgw3r2t6u65va-story.html\">257 mail-in ballots<\/a> that didn\u2019t have dates were counted.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Republican legislators and conservatives filed amicus briefs saying the Third Circuit Court\u2019s ruling threatened the integrity of the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>But the Supreme Court\u2019s action on Tuesday means that the Third Circuit ruling cannot be used as a precedent in the three states covered by this regional federal appellate court\u2014Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware\u2014to allow the counting of ballots with minor flaws such as the voter failing to fill in the date. Vacating the ruling does not change Ritter\u2019s loss in his race.<\/p>\n<p> Previous Ruling <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Supreme Court denied Ritter\u2019s attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/supreme-court-lifts-stay-allows-counting-of-questionable-ballots-in-pennsylvania-judicial-election_4524441.html\">block<\/a> the counting of ballots that lacked dates. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissented.\u00a0Days before that (<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/221499p.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), a panel on the Third Circuit ordered the counting of the undated ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Alito had written that the lower court\u2019s ruling \u201ccould well affect the outcome\u201d of the elections this year as voters go to the polls on Nov. 8 in midterms in which Republicans are seeking to seize control<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated an appeals court decision that required\u00a0Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots even if there is no date on the envelope. \u201cThe judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit with instructions to dismiss the case as moot,\u201d wrote\u00a0Justices Sonia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}