Pennsylvania’s legal battle over “Bidenbucks” will go on after a federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by a group of Keystone State lawmakers challenging President Joe Biden’s constitutionally suspect executive order that uses federal agencies as a Democrat get-out-the-vote machine.
Attorney Erick Kaardal, who represents Freedom Caucus Republicans in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, tells The Federalist that the 26 lawmakers plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the lawsuit against the president and Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat.
“We’re going to be petitioning for accelerated review by the Supreme Court, using the Purcell Principle, not as a shield but as a sword,” Kaardal said.
The Purcell Principle deals with the timeliness of election rules, asserting that changing laws just before an election could confuse voters and create headaches for election administrators.
The principle, according to SCOTUSblog, was drawn from Purcell v. Gonzalez, “in which the Supreme Court reversed an October 2006 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocking an Arizona voter ID law during that year’s midterm election.”
Kaardal says his clients will soon file a motion in the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals and petition the Supreme Court to immediately review the lower court’s decision.
“The idea of filing under the Purcell Principle is that the Supreme Court should take this before the summer recess so it can decide whether President Biden’s Executive Order 14019 is to be the law of the land,” the election integrity attorney said.
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