Supreme Court Is Turning Constitution Into 2-Legged Stool by Failing to Adjudicate Texas Lawsuit

Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court building in Washington on Nov. 30, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

Commentary

The refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the suit of Texas and 17 other states against four states (Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) that were alleged not to have conducted fair presidential elections, on the grounds of Texas’s lack of standing, is a grievous abdication.