Merits

President Donald Trump  shared his reaction to the Supreme Court dumping the Texas lawsuit challenging the election. He ranted after midnight Friday about getting “screwed,” boasting he “got more votes than any other sitting president in history” — yet “purportedly lost” (because Joe Biden got 7 million more votes).  Trump had “intervened” on behalf of the Texas lawsuit seeking to toss all the votes in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which happened to vote for Biden. The suit was backed by 17 other red states “wonderful states,” the president noted in his tweet.  But the court tossed the suit Friday because Texas “lacked standing” to challenge votes in other states, it said in a brief, unsigned order.  In “a flash” the suit was “thrown out and gone, without even looking at the many reasons it was brought,” Trump angrily tweeted. “A Rigged Election, fight on!” he added.  He complained bitterly that no court has yet judged his complaints about election fraud on their “merits” — even though there is absolutely no evidence of election fraud and no merits to reverse the election. “It’s a “legal disgrace, an embarrassment to the USA!!!” he tweeted.   He grumbled that the Supreme Court “really let us down,” and has “no wisdom, no courage!”  But, like many of his other appointees, those Supreme Court Justices appointed by Trump had the wisdom to make a decision based upon the merits of the case and in the case of Trump, quickly realized there are no merits to his claims of election fraud.  The fact that there has never been evidence of fraud should have been a clue that even Trump could have recognized but lacking the ability to differentiate between fantasy and reality Trump continues to press his case and will continue to suffer defeat by the courts.