Governor Noem Files Brief at U.S. Supreme Court in Important Election Integrity Case
PIERRE, S.D. – This week, Governor Kristi Noem submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in support of the petitioners in the case of Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and in defense of fair, neutrally-applicable election laws that work to prevent voter fraud. This brief could not be timelier in light of the ongoing national election dispute.
“The 2020 election has shaken the American people’s faith in the integrity of the electoral process,” said Governor Kristi Noem. “Fortunately, the Brnovich case presents the Supreme Court with a fantastic opportunity to restore public trust in American elections. In South Dakota, our election system is fair and transparent, and all states should be held to the same standard. Our hope is the Supreme Court will set a clear precedent that upholds the powers of states to enforce neutral, non-discriminatory voting rules that apply fairly to all by supporting the petitioners.”
The amicus brief argues that the Voting Rights Act does not prevent states from enacting neutral election laws like Arizona’s ban on ballot-harvesting and in-precinct voting requirements. Arizona’s laws are not identical to South Dakota’s election laws, but all states should be allowed to design rules that promote the order and integrity of their elections. States should be able to enact and revise laws designed to ensure that every legal vote counts, and they shouldn’t have to fear being taken to court for pursuing electoral fairness.
The amicus brief is available on the Supreme Court docket at this link.
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Who’s paying for this? Is it a donation?
“Stop Brown People from Voting”
This’ll sure burnish your rep with the natives, eh, Snowflake Queen?
How embarrassing.
We need more leaders like Governor Noem!
No, we don’t, she is self-center and doesn’t know how to run things!
Yes, the judges could have ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, but not honorably or ethically.
The Texas suit was worse than the baseless other suits. The conservative majority couldn’t even support it, partly because they are conservative, for several reasons.
1. Unconstitutional. The Constitution provides that the individual states are responsible for conducting their elections. One state cannot tell other states how to run their elections, not even SCOTUS can tell them that. Conservatives stick closely to the written language in the Constitution and could not support the suit.
2. Even if they had a hearing, there was never any evidence. Affidavits stating possible irregularities is not proof that the votes were invalid, only that they because of the enormous number, some may have been handled incorrectly, but not invalid votes. Only outcome of a hearing is upholding the election.
3. Even if they could find a way to invalidate those elections and require new elections in those states, if it was done after the inauguration, it is moot. The Supreme Court cannot remove a sworn president, only impeachment.
4. Worst case for conservatives, if it came before the inauguration, there would be no elected president or vice president on January 21. Guess who is next in the succession line?? Conservative judges would rather have Biden than her!!!
It wasn’t the election that shook Americans faith in the election, it was baseless claims of fraud. Every case was blown up in court, yet still the claims continue.
The integrity of our elections is a cornerstone of our Republic. The notion that bureaucrats or even elected officials can change election rules or procedures without legislative authority or that are contrary to the U.S. Constitution should be alarming to anyone other than anarchists. I appreciate that Governor Noem recognizes this and has taken action to support this suit.
Election integrity is absolutely the cornerstone of the republic. What does it tell you that the SCOTUS denied to hear the PA case brought by Mark Kelly over this exact issue of “unconstitutional” mail-in voting procedural changes? It should tell you that the election in PA was held with integrity, and we can trust the result: Trump lost. Get over it.
Baseless?!? Do you discount ALL of the sworn affidavits that are on file? Perhaps you would like to visit those videos of the “people” in Atlanta bringing out cases of ballots to count AFTER all of the observers were sent home due to a fake water main break. If that is not enough to get your curiosity going, perhaps the video of one of the women running ballots through the machine 3 times would get your curiosity up. I suppose you also discount all of the affidavits from witnesses who observed illegal activity in Pennsylvania. Also, why would the counters want to kick out Republican observers? BTW, do you find it curious that according to SWORN affidavits, vans of ballots were brought in during the early morning hours in Michigan? I believe this is also the case in Wisconsin. Do you also find it credible that 134,000 votes came in for Biden to Trump’s 5,000? I am also wondering if you find it curious that Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia ALL stopped counting at around the same time with the real winner President Trump comfortably in the lead and that lead mysteriously disappearing over night? And I suppose you do not find it troubling that Hiden’ Biden beat the odds at something like 4 quadrillion to 1. People have been assigned child support on better odds than that. It is sad, but should the pretender become President Biden, he will be facing not only legal troubles coming from his family and China, but he will be thought of as the illegitimate President.
This is a time for the SCOTUS to have these challenges heard.
I agree, I am shocked no one wants to see the evidence. Last time I looked they have 500+ sworn affidavits from regular people who saw fraud. Yet in the Trump Russia investigation all we saw were “anonymous” whistleblowers from the Swamp yet we spent 3 years and millions of dollars on a bogus charge. These affidavits are not from people who have the money or power to defend themselves and have everything to lose so why does ordinary Joe and hundreds of them say they saw fraud. If your NOT even curious then your a moron flat out. The best part is all the VIDEO evidence that shows them running the ballots threw the machines at 3 am when NO one is there. My other favorite video is the suitcases of ballots brought out from under the table. There are other videos that show the officials telling everyone to go home at like 10pm as no more counting would be done yet BOOM out comes 4 or 5 folks to finish courting which is a clear violation. In Pennsylvania overnight BIden got 570k votes and Trump got 5k after he was up 700k. That’s statically impossible! Look I get some of you dont like Trump and thats fine but, if you think you will ever have a fair election of this Brazen fraud is allowed to continue your delusional
Please don’t take this as a criticism, but you left out a judge has denied publication of the results of forensic audit of Dominion. Why would they do that? I have to say, I admit that I really agree with you about not being curious.
“Suitcases” of ballots has been thoroughly debunked:
The 90 second video of election workers at State Farm arena, purporting to show fraud was watched in its entirety (hours) by @GaSecofState investigators. Shows normal ballot processing. Here is the fact check on it. https://t.co/HVJsvDjDvi
— Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) December 4, 2020
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/04/facebook-posts/no-georgia-election-workers-didnt-kick-out-observe/
The rest of your assertions are simply absurd and show a complete unwillingness to accept reality. Trump lost. Get over it.
Well, you do have a point. They were not suitcases. They were cases, though. And no, the assertions are not absurd. BTW, is it normal to kick out observers and bring out hidden cases and start counting them and running batches through the machines three times? https://www.sgtreport.com/2020/12/corrupt-georgia-election-worker-seen-loading-same-ballots-3-times-into-machine/ Debunk that!
BTW, Politifact either lied or was unaware that there are tapes showing they were indeed stopping counting and there are several people who have sworn affidavits saying they were sent home. Someone is lying. Either Politifact’s source or the several witnesses. I suspect Politifact’s source is lying. They have more to protect.
The judges ALL asked for supporting evidence. Giuliani never produced it. They had affidavits/statements that said “this doesn’t look right”, “that could have happened”, “this could have happened” because of irregularities in processing, but could never proove that it DID happen. Therefore the judges, even Trump judges, had to throw them out.
All of which has been explained or debunked, thus the constant failures in court. But that’s not what you want to hear, so continue to play the victim.
Common sense tells you there is voter fraud. No way Biden, who cannot form a sentence, got more votes than ANY president in history. You cannot be that stupid!
Common sense tells me that there’s no voter fraud on any scale that would tip the election to Trump. Common sense tells me that when even Bill Barr agrees there was no voter fraud, that there was no voter fraud. Trump & Co. losing 50+ lawsuits so far also informs my common sense that there was no fraud. Common sense would also indicate that Rudy Giuliani admitted in open court that the campaign was in no way accusing anyone of fraud, that there wasn’t any voter fraud.
In fact, the main person pushing the fraud lie, via tweet and surrogates, is Trump. A known, proven, liar.
Common sense should inform you that you shouldn’t trust a liar who refutes utterly, completely, unequivocal, hard evidence that there was no voter fraud.
Trump lost. Get over it.
Amen. SD GOP needs to excise the trumpian tumor of deluded idiocy from the party ASAP.
Common sense obviously isn’t as common as it should be!
Not as baseless as the corrupt Democrat impeachment efforts or the collusion crap that the left put the country through.
Do you also believe claims of Senile Joe’s corruption are baseless?
Yes, but the claims of crooked Trump corruption are proven, he pleaded guilty to corruption in his foundation and had to pay millions in fines. He had to settle with a $30million settlement for his fraudulent university. He has made millions off the taxpayer by taking his vacations (more than one day a week) at his own golf resorts rather than the presidential resort at Camp David. Taxpayers have paid over $600,000 just for golf carts!!!
I wonder what the SOS and his peers think of all this?
Looked at the brief. It is written by a group of lawyers from Washington, DC so this is just another stunt to remain in favor of her exhaulted leader – trump.
I challenge people to actually read the suit. Basically, these R&D SOSs appear to have made friendly settlements with activists seeking to laxen mail-in voting requirements without making the constitutionally (state & fed) required legislative changes.
PAs response basically is not that they changed the laws constitutionally, but that we must suffer their poopshow of an election because it would be bad to do otherwise.
The failure of other states to run competent elections disenfranchises the votes of every American no matter what state they live in, or what party they belong to. Forget Trump, this cannot be allowed to continue. Think of your neighbor dumping sewage into their backyard – the “it’s my property bro.” argument won’t cut it.
What was unconstitutional about the law expanding mail in voting? It easily passed in 2019 with strong support from PA GOP. PA Supreme Court said it was constitutional. US Supreme Court declined to hear the case, leaving the PA court ruling in place. Just because you feel something is unconstitutional doesn’t make it so. You have to prove it, and no one has done so yet, and the law stands.
PA’s response is absolutely that they changed the law constitutionally.
If we’re going to have a discussion about “the failure of other states to run competent elections” then you’re going to have to show some actual proof, not a bunch of allegations that have been roundly dismissed in actual court. The constitution and our country is not subject the the fever dreams of right wing media commentators who don’t bother themselves with the burden of proof.
They are alleging that Act 77 goes against article VII of the PA constitution, and therefore the US constitution. They either make the case or they don’t. They literally show their evidence. You can agree or not that it is good evidence, but don’t have make up stuff about dreams or feelings.
So do you believe election operations in major urban centers in swing states were conducted with the utmost of excellence and the PAs operation wasn’t a national embarrassment compared to let’s say Florida? Ok then
PASC said 77 was constitutional. The SCOTUS refused to reverse their decision. Paxton’s current Quixotic quest is trying re-litigate settled law. Trump lost. Get over it.
Oh, and we all know how great FL runs elections :rolleyes:
I think that PA conducted the election very well and in accordance with PA law. I think it would have been better if PA could have processed absentee ballots earlier, the way Florida did. Unfortunately, the Republicans in the PA legislature blocked efforts to make exactly such a change. I don’t have to make any judgement on the evidence, because the courts already have, and the folks who support this effort by Trump have nothing credible to show for it.
On topic:
Y’all realize this is just another attempt to disenfranchise brown people from voting, right? Gov. Noem’s track record in dealing with non-whites is… well, it’s not good. She can’t stop the roadblocks, she can’t deny polling places, and she’s persona non grata on our reservations. It should come as no surprise she would be on the side of a lawsuit attempting to stifle minority voting (something like 4:1).
Good grief…. always the same argument. Any attempt at insuring legal and honest ekections is racist. Get over it!
Have you read the DNC complaint? You can wrap the pig however you like, but at the end of the day, it’s still a pig.
What impresses me is how all these Biden supporters are so anxious and aggressive to stop Trump and the GOP from looking bad from these lawsuits.
Kumbaya. Or not.
Well that’s bass ackwards. I strongly encourage Trump and his acolytes to continue to make fools of themselves! And what better way than to wind up those acolytes?
Donald Trump will go down in history for more than being the 45th President of the United States. Don’t forget that he will be renowned as the star of the Biggest Loser.
A 6-3 conservative majority Supreme Court put out a 9-0 statement that the lawsuit was completely without merit. Everyone who signed on to this bit of nonsense should be ashamed of themselves. Does the GOP stand for principles or just for whatever is good for Trump, because it seems like only the later.