Absalom, King David’s son in the Bible, dies because his luxurious hair gets caught in a branch while he’s on horseback during battle. His handsomeness is emphasized in the text before that point

Yep. SCOTUS denied this likely because the GOP bypassed state courts to go straight to SCOTUS and also threatened to make a mockery of the state elections by asking for “at large” elections as a Constitutional solution that was really a publicity stunt. It’s likely they’ll uphold independent state legislature theory in the NC case and render this PA case moot without the procedural deficiencies.

Hold your horses. They denied this likely because the GOP bypassed state courts to go straight to SCOTUS and also threatened to make a mockery of the state elections by asking for “at large” elections as a Constitutional solution that was really a publicity stunt. It’s likely they’ll uphold independent state legislature theory in the NC case and render this PA case moot without the procedural deficiencies.