{"id":1478902,"date":"2024-07-23T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1478902"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T20:25:00","slug":"3-supreme-court-justices-recuse-2nd-time-in-case-accusing-them-of-wrongly-rejecting-2020-election-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/3-supreme-court-justices-recuse-2nd-time-in-case-accusing-them-of-wrongly-rejecting-2020-election-lawsuit\/1478902\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Supreme Court Justices Recuse 2nd Time In Case Accusing Them Of Wrongly Rejecting 2020 Election Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 Supreme Court Justices Recuse 2nd Time In Case Accusing Them Of Wrongly Rejecting 2020 Election Lawsuit<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court refused on July 22 to rehear a lawsuit that was filed against three justices because they rejected a previous lawsuit aimed at lawmakers who certified the 2020 election victory of President Joe Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on May 12, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu\/The Epoch Times)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In a rare move, all three justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – recused themselves from the case because they were named as co-respondents in it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new ruling follows the court\u2019s decision on May 28 to turn away the longshot legal bid by Raland J. Brunson of Ogden, Utah, who has gained notoriety among supporters of former President Donald Trump for his legal activism.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brunson has filed several lawsuits along with his brothers. <\/strong>He told The Epoch Times that he filed the latest lawsuit, which alleged the justices violated their oath of office, to draw attention to the importance of oaths of office.<\/p>\n

In the case at hand, Brunson v. Sotomayor, Mr. Brunson, sued Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson in their official capacities for voting on Feb. 21, 2023, to deny the petition for certiorari, or review, in his previous lawsuit known as Brunson v. Adams.<\/p>\n

In Brunson v. Adams, he sued hundreds of members of Congress in 2021, claiming that they violated their oath of office by not giving time for investigations of election fraud in the 2020 election <\/strong>and by certifying the election victory of then-challenger Joe Biden over then-incumbent President Trump in a process that concluded in the early morning of Jan. 7, 2021, following the U.S. Capitol breach.<\/p>\n

Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) appeared in the short title of the\u00a0petition<\/a> filed in that appeal because she was named first in the list of 388 respondents. Also included as respondents were President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former Vice President Mike Pence. The lawsuit sought the removal from office of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the members of Congress.<\/p>\n

In the unusual lawsuit, Mr. Brunson argued that avoiding an investigation of how President Biden won the election \u201cis an act of treason and an act of levying war against the U.S. Constitution<\/strong> which violated Brunson\u2019s unfettered right to vote in an honest and fair election and as such it wrongfully invalidated his vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that appeal, the Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari without comment in an unsigned order on Jan. 9, 2023. The court then denied a petition for rehearing on Feb. 21, 2023, also without comment in an unsigned order.<\/p>\n

Later, in February 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected the case of Brunson v. Sotomayor.<\/p>\n

On May 28 of this year, all three Democrat-appointed justices being sued in the same case recused themselves as the Supreme Court denied that petition for certiorari.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court justices cited judicial disqualification mandates in the U.S. Code and the Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, which the nation\u2019s highest court adopted in November 2023.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brunson argued in his petition<\/a> for rehearing filed on June 12 in Brunson v. Sotomayor that by voting to deny the petition for certiorari, the justices violated their oath of office.<\/p>\n

The court has \u201ca legal and binding duty under the law to grant\u201d the petition, which \u201ccenters on their oath of office which cannot be ignored without it being a violation of their oath of office,\u201d <\/strong>he argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Justices cannot be checked by their oath through Brunson\u2019s petition or others like … it, then our freedoms are subject to what they declare them to be instead of what they are,\u201d the petition stated.<\/p>\n

The justices\u2019 oath requires<\/a> them to be impartial, to administer justice and \u201cdo equal right to the poor and to the rich,\u201d and uphold the U.S. Constitution and the nation\u2019s laws.<\/p>\n

The decision not to rehear Brunson v. Sotomayor came in an unsigned order<\/a> on July 22. No justices dissented and the court did not explain its reasoning.<\/p>\n

Again, the three recusing justices cited judicial disqualification mandates related to them being parties in the legal proceeding.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brunson told The Epoch Times that the court\u2019s decision not to rehear the case did not surprise him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, we\u2019re going after their own immunity<\/strong>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For the Supreme Court to grant a petition, it has to qualify under the court\u2019s criteria, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to be something that\u2019s going to affect the whole nation, or something that\u2019s a contradiction to something they\u2019ve already ruled on before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brunson said he was \u201ccurious to see what they would do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was worth a try, and educational, and there was a chance in a million that maybe something could happen. And I knew the odds were against me from the beginning, but … I had nothing to lose on this,\u201d he said, adding that he hoped the lawsuit created \u201cawareness\u201d about oaths of office.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the philosophy that the Brunson brothers have is this: It doesn\u2019t matter who the president is or our leaders are. As long as they keep their oath of office, we\u2019ll do fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Brunson said more lawsuits are coming but he couldn\u2019t discuss them because he is \u201cstill strategizing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Epoch Times reached out to the U.S. Department of Justice, which represented the three justices, for comment, but didn\u2019t receive a reply by publication time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 07\/23\/2024 – 12:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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