This case was dismissed for lack of standing.  Other cases were dismissed for a variety of reasons including the evidence being specious or deficient.  That's losing.  All of that is losing.  If it was Steve Jones vs McCown Tech and it was dismissed then you'd say you lost.  There'd be no doubt in your mind.

I think the argument your making (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that they won't feel like they really lost unless they get to make their arguments in a courtroom and THEN lose.  I'm saying they'll feel like they didn't really lose no matter what, and a courtroom just gives them another pulpit to preach from.  If the evidence sucks, the arguments are illogical, and/or they're asking for relief that the court can't give them, then dismissing is the right move.


On 12/14/2020 12:34 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
Thats the issue, they havent "lost in court" they never went to court. The court responsible for hearing it. No one is saying hear every case, but cases of national importance and with immense national consequence need not ever be punted. The vast majority of pro 2A people understand the 2a isnt there for hunting game adn the lack of action on scotus part will result in action elsewhere. There will be blood over this, and its not necessary. Once scotus actually ruled after hearing the case, most would move on. The tim mcveighs out there are building their bombs regardless. But Jane Q would probably go back to canning beets. Instead right now shes listening to alex jones (why does covid take charlie pride, but not alex jones, somebody explain this)

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:18 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com <mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    If they heard every argument and /then/ dismissed it, isn't that
    just a different kind of political messaging? Expedience mattered
    in this case because the EC vote was imminent.

    I realize there are nutters who will rationalize the outcome as
    "we were right, but the court didn't want to hear it because of a
    technicality."  But if they went all the way through with it the
    same people would come up with some other reasoning why they
    actually were right.  There are still people who insist Nixon was
    framed, and people still think Iraq had functional WMD's. 
    Forevermore there will be people who believe Donald Trump actually
    won the 2020 election, and nothing the court says will ever change
    their minds.  Losing in court >50 times didn't matter to them, why
    would one more?

    I'm ready for "justsumname" to pipe and prove me right.


    On 12/14/2020 11:55 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
    That's exactly why the supreme court needed to do their job and
    hear it. Then smack it down, I don't like the supreme court
    making decisions out of political expedience as they did here
    (hint the last 3). Hell, these arent even states actually at each
    other, its elected state officials. Scotus needed to put case law
    with a ruling (this wasnt a ruling) in the books.

    There will be violence that could have been avoided. Outcome of
    the "case" would have been the same either way.


    On Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:24 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com
    <mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote:

        There's a school of thought that since their jurisdiction is
        exclusive, the Supreme Court has an obligation to hear /any/
        case a state brings no matter how flawed it might be.  Their
        feeling is that since there's no higher power to appeal to,
        that they /have /to hear the case so that it gets heard. 
        Thomas and Alito are in that school of thought, and that's
        why they expressed the opinion they did.

        My reading of it is that the only disagreement was whether to
        tell Texas to go away before or after they're allowed to file
        their complaints. Either way, the court unanimously told
        Texas to pound sand.  The only way this is unclear is if
        someone willfully interprets it that way.  If someone is
        inclined it interpret it that way, then they would have been
        unhappy with any outcome. There was absolutely zero chance
        that the Supreme Court of the US would overturn one state's
        election at the behest of another.  Especially based on the
        argument that "their election processes hurt us."  If they
        did that, then similar suits would happen every 4 years
        henceforth.


        On 12/12/2020 10:31 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
        We need to have scotus do their damn job and get case law.
        If they keep punting for politics it will get stupid. This
        team when one snaps out you dont get some cross dresser
        popping through a crowd to bike lock someone and scurrying
        off, you get Oklahoma city. They need to shut the shit down
        or pay the cost of the product they purchased.

        On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 6:24 PM Bill Prince
        <part15...@gmail.com <mailto:part15...@gmail.com>> wrote:

            Deep within this troll, the force runs.


            bp
            <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>

            On 12/12/2020 4:10 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

            Yes, thank you.

            I don’t know what was more bizarre, that music video,
            or Chuck being the one who sent it.  Who knew.

            *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com>
            <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
            *Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2020 5:55 PM
            *To:* af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>
            *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots

            bp
            <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>

            On 12/12/2020 2:55 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

                Is there a mind blown emoji?

                -----Original Message-----

                From: AF<af-boun...@af.afmug.com>  
<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>  On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF

                Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 4:30 PM

                To:af@af.afmug.com  <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>

                Cc: Chuck McCown<ch...@go-mtc.com>  <mailto:ch...@go-mtc.com>

                Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots

                https://youtu.be/yModCU1OVHY  <https://youtu.be/yModCU1OVHY>

                -----Original Message-----

                From: Bill Prince

                Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 3:28 PM

                To:af@af.afmug.com  <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>

                Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots

                First place I heard it was from Molly Wood on Make Me Smart:

                https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en  
<https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en>

                <https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en>  
<https://twitter.com/mollywood/status/1169705055194247168?lang=en>

                bp

                <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>

                On 12/12/2020 12:03 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

                    I was not familiar with the term banana-pants.  A Google 
search yields

                    lots of results, mostly photos of banana pants, as well as 
some songs,

                    none of which shed much light on the subject for me.  I 
assume it

                    means cra-cra?

                    -----Original Message-----

                    From: AF<af-boun...@af.afmug.com>  
<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>  On Behalf Of Robert Andrews

                    Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 1:42 PM

                    To:af@af.afmug.com  <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>

                    Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Not all Texans are idiots

                    This was similar to how the south leaders hauled all the 
regular

                    people into the civil war.  Yes they did a good job 
stirring things up

                    before.

                    On 12/12/2020 11:19 AM, Bill Prince wrote:

                        The people who should really be looking at this are the 
citizens in

                        the states who think it's appropriate for their AG to 
sue another

                        state's election results.

                        The suit was what I would call banana-pants.

                        bp

                        <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>

                        On 12/11/2020 4:19 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote:

                            All these craven lackeys got a big fuck you from 
the SCOTUS...

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