Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) defended Pennsylvania election officials ignoring a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling by counting votes that the court said were invalid.
Fetterman made the remarks unchallenged during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper.
“Your colleague Senator Bob Casey, who was up for reelection, there’s a commonwealth-mandated recount going on right now because it was so close,” Tapper said. “Democratic officials in at least one key county, Bucks County, voted to count about 115 provisional ballots that are missing a signature, despite the Pennsylvania Supreme Court previously ruling that those are invalid.”
A Democratic Bucks County official justified her actions by saying: “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country and people violate laws any time they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention to it.”