Barrett will begin hearing oral arguments next week after being sworn in at a private ceremony at the Supreme Court Tuesday. But her confirmation late Monday — with not a single Democrat vote — set off apoplectic reactions from the left and calls for packing the high court in Dire Revenge. Critics of President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...have already begun the impeachment narrative against his Supreme Court pick should she not recuse herself from a Pennsylvania election case.
The Luzerne County Board of Elections filed a recusal motion Tuesday over a Pennsylvania case involving an extension for mail-in ballots.
"The nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court justice this close to a presidential election is unprecedented," they wrote. "As concerning as that is, what is even more troubling is the language President Trump has used in consideration of this nomination, linking it directly to the electoral season at hand, with implications for his own re-election."
Pennsylvania Republicans have asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on election laws in the swing state, which currently allow mail-in ballots to still be counted in the final tallies up to three days after Election Day. On Friday, Republicans requested the high court rule on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court deadlocked case that mail-in ballots be accepted as long as they arrive by Nov. 6 and were not postmarked after Election Day.