A year ago, Emile Beauvais was a simple lawyer for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. He represented him in the Manhattan criminal trial in the hush-money case that led to his client's conviction, and also worked on two federal cases against the then-former president.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
The case began with a challenge filed in 2022 by Pennsylvania Democrats over Pennsylvania's instructions to county election officials. The instructions directed commissions to ignore mail-in ballots that were submitted on time but were not dated or had the wrong date on the outer envelopes.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
“At issue is Pennsylvania's requirement that voters include the date next to their signature on the declaration when submitting a mail-in ballot,” the opinion states. “For a voter with a working pen, enough ink and average manual dexterity, this should take less than five seconds.”
The case began with a challenge filed in 2022 by Pennsylvania Democrats over Pennsylvania's instructions to county election officials. The instructions directed commissions to ignore mail-in ballots that were submitted on time but were not dated or had the wrong date on the outer envelopes.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
“At issue is Pennsylvania's requirement that voters include the date next to their signature on the declaration when submitting a mail-in ballot,” the opinion states. “For a voter with a working pen, enough ink and average manual dexterity, this should take less than five seconds.”
The case began with a challenge filed in 2022 by Pennsylvania Democrats over Pennsylvania's instructions to county election officials. The instructions directed commissions to ignore mail-in ballots that were submitted on time but were not dated or had the wrong date on the outer envelopes.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
The appeals court, in issuing its opinion, said Beauvais would file his dissent at a later date. It arrived on Friday. It offers a look at the start of Beauvais' new career as an appellate judge.
“At issue is Pennsylvania's requirement that voters include the date next to their signature on the declaration when submitting a mail-in ballot,” the opinion states. “For a voter with a working pen, enough ink and average manual dexterity, this should take less than five seconds.”
The case began with a challenge filed in 2022 by Pennsylvania Democrats over Pennsylvania's instructions to county election officials. The instructions directed commissions to ignore mail-in ballots that were submitted on time but were not dated or had the wrong date on the outer envelopes.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
On Friday, he scrambled to issue a 20-page order in the election case, which the court decided nearly two weeks ago. On October 14, the Third Circuit denied a full trial hearing that the RNC had requested in connection with the August decision. In that case, the panel upheld a lower court decision requiring Pennsylvania to count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots, ruling that previous orders tossing ballots containing those errors violated the Constitution. Those ballots have often been a hotly contested issue in Pennsylvania elections, with Republicans seeking to limit the criteria by which mail-in votes are accepted and Democrats seeking to expand them.
The appeals court, in issuing its opinion, said Beauvais would file his dissent at a later date. It arrived on Friday. It offers a look at the start of Beauvais' new career as an appellate judge.
“At issue is Pennsylvania's requirement that voters include the date next to their signature on the declaration when submitting a mail-in ballot,” the opinion states. “For a voter with a working pen, enough ink and average manual dexterity, this should take less than five seconds.”
The case began with a challenge filed in 2022 by Pennsylvania Democrats over Pennsylvania's instructions to county election officials. The instructions directed commissions to ignore mail-in ballots that were submitted on time but were not dated or had the wrong date on the outer envelopes.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
Now all this triangulation, norm breaking and play innocent when faced with a problem with this it paid off. Beauvais serves in a rare role as a federal judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Friday, he scrambled to issue a 20-page order in the election case, which the court decided nearly two weeks ago. On October 14, the Third Circuit denied a full trial hearing that the RNC had requested in connection with the August decision. In that case, the panel upheld a lower court decision requiring Pennsylvania to count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots, ruling that previous orders tossing ballots containing those errors violated the Constitution. Those ballots have often been a hotly contested issue in Pennsylvania elections, with Republicans seeking to limit the criteria by which mail-in votes are accepted and Democrats seeking to expand them.
The appeals court, in issuing its opinion, said Beauvais would file his dissent at a later date. It arrived on Friday. It offers a look at the start of Beauvais' new career as an appellate judge.
“At issue is Pennsylvania's requirement that voters include the date next to their signature on the declaration when submitting a mail-in ballot,” the opinion states. “For a voter with a working pen, enough ink and average manual dexterity, this should take less than five seconds.”
The case began with a challenge filed in 2022 by Pennsylvania Democrats over Pennsylvania's instructions to county election officials. The instructions directed commissions to ignore mail-in ballots that were submitted on time but were not dated or had the wrong date on the outer envelopes.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
After Trump's victory, Bove became the president's personal executive at the Justice Department. He led a bizarre effort to turn the Eric Adams corruption case into a means of securing his loyalty to the president's immigration policies and allegedly encouraged disobedience of the courts during his deportation to Salvador's CECOT prison under the Alien Enemies Act.
Now all this triangulation, norm breaking and play innocent when faced with a problem with this it paid off. Beauvais serves in a rare role as a federal judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Friday, he scrambled to issue a 20-page order in the election case, which the court decided nearly two weeks ago. On October 14, the Third Circuit denied a full trial hearing that the RNC had requested in connection with the August decision. In that case, the panel upheld a lower court decision requiring Pennsylvania to count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots, ruling that previous orders tossing ballots containing those errors violated the Constitution. Those ballots have often been a hotly contested issue in Pennsylvania elections, with Republicans seeking to limit the criteria by which mail-in votes are accepted and Democrats seeking to expand them.
The appeals court, in issuing its opinion, said Beauvais would file his dissent at a later date. It arrived on Friday. It offers a look at the start of Beauvais' new career as an appellate judge.
“At issue is Pennsylvania's requirement that voters include the date next to their signature on the declaration when submitting a mail-in ballot,” the opinion states. “For a voter with a working pen, enough ink and average manual dexterity, this should take less than five seconds.”
The case began with a challenge filed in 2022 by Pennsylvania Democrats over Pennsylvania's instructions to county election officials. The instructions directed commissions to ignore mail-in ballots that were submitted on time but were not dated or had the wrong date on the outer envelopes.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
After Trump's victory, Bove became the president's personal executive at the Justice Department. He led a bizarre effort to turn the Eric Adams corruption case into a means of securing his loyalty to the president's immigration policies and allegedly encouraged disobedience of the courts during his deportation to Salvador's CECOT prison under the Alien Enemies Act.
Now all this triangulation, norm breaking and play innocent when faced with a problem with this it paid off. Beauvais serves in a rare role as a federal judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Friday, he scrambled to issue a 20-page order in the election case, which the court decided nearly two weeks ago. On October 14, the Third Circuit denied a full trial hearing that the RNC had requested in connection with the August decision. In that case, the panel upheld a lower court decision requiring Pennsylvania to count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots, ruling that previous orders tossing ballots containing those errors violated the Constitution. Those ballots have often been a hotly contested issue in Pennsylvania elections, with Republicans seeking to limit the criteria by which mail-in votes are accepted and Democrats seeking to expand them.
The appeals court, in issuing its opinion, said Beauvais would file his dissent at a later date. It arrived on Friday. It offers a look at the start of Beauvais' new career as an appellate judge.
“At issue is Pennsylvania's requirement that voters include the date next to their signature on the declaration when submitting a mail-in ballot,” the opinion states. “For a voter with a working pen, enough ink and average manual dexterity, this should take less than five seconds.”
The case began with a challenge filed in 2022 by Pennsylvania Democrats over Pennsylvania's instructions to county election officials. The instructions directed commissions to ignore mail-in ballots that were submitted on time but were not dated or had the wrong date on the outer envelopes.
A lower court judge did not rule until March 2025, finding the claims unconstitutional.
Bove rejected the court's role in the case, saying the lower court added to “the existing uncertainty that Pennsylvania officials already face as they prepare for administrative liability.” election on November 4, 2025, and during the next congressional midterm elections. year.” He added that the Supreme Court will hopefully review the case and overturn the decision.
To do otherwise, he wrote, would be to abandon an opinion that “could lead to an anti-democratic seizure of power from the politically responsible representatives of the people.”
