The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block certification of the commonwealth's election results, delivering a near fatal blow to the GOP's long-shot bid to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden's victory. The Supreme Court's action is a crushing loss for Trump, who has frequently touted the high court's potential to overturn his election loss. Just hours before the court's order was released, Trump made a direct appeal to state officials and members of the Supreme Court to assist him in his efforts to subvert the will of voters, as he continually and falsely suggested there was massive voter fraud during the election . "Let's see whether or not somebody has the courage, whether it's legislators or legislatures or a justice of the Supreme Court or a number of justices of the Supreme Court," Trump said. "Let's see if they have the courage to do what everybody in this country knows is right." Tuesday's one-line order was issued with no noted dissents or comment from any of the nine justices. The court is made up of six conservative justices - including Trump's three nominees - Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett - and three liberals. The quick action with no dissents is a signal the Supreme Court may not want to get involved in the ongoing Trump challenges, said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and University of Texas Law professor. "The fact that the justices issued a one-sentence order with no separate opinions is a powerful sign that the court intends to stay out of election-related disputes, and that it's going to leave things to the electoral process going forward," Vladeck said . "It's hard to imagine a more quietly resounding rejection of these challenges from this court," Vladeck added. Tuesday marks the "safe harbor" deadline for the state under federal law. That means that when Congress tallies the electoral votes in January, it must accept electoral results that were certified before the deadline. Steep odds for Republicans The effort from Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers faced steep odds at the Supreme Court, particularly because the dispute turned mostly on issues of state law. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed the challenge previously, holding that Rep. Mike Kelly and others bringing the suit failed to file their challenge in a timely manner. Lawyers for Kelly argued that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated his "right to petition and right to due process, guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, respectively, by closing all avenues of relief for past and future harms." But Pennsylvania officials called the petition "fundamentally frivolous." "No court has ever issued an order nullifying a governor's certification of presidential election results," argued J. Bart Delone, the state's chief deputy attorney general. "The loss of public trust in our constitutional order resulting in this kind of judicial power would be incalculable." The emergency petition from the lawmakers was addressed to Justice Samuel Alito, who has jurisdiction over the Pennsylvania courts. I have referred it to the whole court, which issued the order.

Smartphones are one of the most complete devices that we can enjoy today. Thanks to powerful low-power processors and modern operating systems, we can enjoy an experience that until years ago was only possible to dream. And it is that today in the palm of our hand we have access to a computer with internet anywhere on the planet that can also be a device to listen to music and watch movies, a camera, a game console and even a GPS . Of course, when a product is good it is easy to get used to and difficult to remember that in the past, a telephone was only used to make and receive calls. For young guys, sometimes it seems incredible that the phones of the time were so limited, and that is why today we bring you a compilation in which we highlight some of the key points of old phones, with their virtues and defects. The batteries lasted eons Battery is one of the biggest evils facing the modern smartphone today. Having such a powerful device and with so many possibilities, we end up using it to its exhaustion, becoming the norm to fully charge it once a day (there are some lucky ones who charge it every two or three days). The phones were indestructible Another of the evils of today's phones is their fragility. Being devices in which everything is a screen, it is easy for a bad fall to end up breaking the front glass. As it is also important that the glass is as thin as possible to have a terminal that offers the best experience, it is a device with which we should be especially careful. With old phones this problem did not happen. Since there were no special functions, manufacturers' top priority was to make devices that were very resistant, so the trend of changing phones per year was a practice that very few users did. Each phone had its own personality We already said it in our article about the mobiles that Nokia had to make on its return. We liked that each manufacturer had a thousand different phone models, each available to one type of customer. There were large, ultra-compact, console-shaped, aimed at the more adventurous, shell type, with a touch screen (yes, resistive), with a physical keyboard on the front or sliding. Each phone had its own touch of the house dedicated to a type of customer, something that completely breaks with the current fashion of creating increasingly large touchscreens that occupy the front next to a metal back, designs so clone that many Sometimes it is difficult for us to differentiate one brand over another. If you wanted Internet, to the computer WhatsApp? Internet? On a phone? A dream within the reach of a few. Telephones in the past were not devices that could connect to the Internet as we do today, much less use chat applications to communicate, so it was necessary to pay for each SMS we sent, this being the biggest concern of parents with children addicted to mobile phones. Over time, the WAP service appeared, a service that we could connect to the Internet through the telephone, but it was very slow and expensive, and the web was not yet ready for mobile connections. 3G and WiFi were a dream that would take a while to reach the masses. The Angry Birds of the time was the Serpent If we were to target one game today as the absolute benchmark for smartphone entertainment, it would be Angry Birds (closely followed by Candy Crush). Being the go-to game means that when a kid is looking for his first phone, he's interested in getting the hot game to work on his new phone (and yes, on my first Android tablet, Angry Birds didn't work). At the time, there were not many games, but there was one that every kid with a new phone wanted to have. It is about the snake, a very typical game of the first telephones that served as a distraction for those dead moments when we were away from home and we had forgotten our Game Boy. Nobody wanted touchscreens Touchscreens are not a modern invention, they really have been around since the 70s. The perfect way to interact with our phone today used to not be through a touch screen, and it was certainly not the preferred method. Generally, most telephones had a kind of "wheel" with four directions or a crosshead with which to move through the menus. This was because resistive touch screens in most cases were quite rough, requiring a pointer, so they were relegated to PDAs, also called digital agendas. Windows was the giant to beat A few years ago, the phones with the most functionalities were called PDA’s. These digital diaries already included the first mobile processors and were used mainly by professionals. At this time, the only mobile devices that Apple manufactured were iPods, which were used exclusively for listening to music, while on the other hand, Google was a company that was in full growth, the competition was on a completely different front from the one. we meet today. Nokia had Symbian, while Palm and Blackberry had their own operating systems. At the top of the mountain was not our Android, but Windows Mobile, the version for PDAs from the manufacturer Microsoft. Neither Apple nor Samsung, the battle was Nokia against Motorola Times change, but the fanboys remain. Throughout history, we have always found in each market a leading brand compared to one that, despite being behind, sometimes ends up standing up. Coca Cola against Pepsi, Cola Cao against Nesquick, Nvidia against AMD or even with the potato omelette, where there are groups that prefer it with onion or without onion. If we go to the world of smartphones, the main fanboys battle is usually Apple against Samsung, but it was not always like that. In the previous section we saw how Apple at the time was completely focused on music and computers, while Samsung did sell mobile phones, but it was considered a second-tier manufacturer. The real battle at the time was Nokia versus Motorola, and as you can suspect, there were already discussions about which brand was better. Of course, Nokia ended up being the biggest of all the manufacturers, but my favorite phone of the time is the Motorola V3. You had to pay for any bullshit Today we download any application, music or video from the Internet, as if it were a computer, but the truth is that at the time it was not so easy to access so many resources for free. At the time, it was common to find ourselves on television (did anyone dislike the song above?) With advertisements that promised us all kinds of ringtones, images or even some games, but the cost to pay was not that simple. If you wanted one of those coveted products, you had to send an SMS with a code to a specific number. Unfortunately, these SMS did not have the price of a traditional text message, but were much more expensive than some games that we can find on Google Play. A mobile could not replace cameras At the time, if they had told us that our mobile phone was going to replace compact cameras, we would not have believed it, and that is that although the arrival of cameras on mobile phones seemed an impressive milestone, the poor quality of the same only served for specific moments, being necessary traditional cameras.

We tell you 10 curiosities that you probably did not know about Whiskey 1. On average 34 bottles of whiskey are exported from Scotland every second. 2. The word whiskey comes from the Gaelic «uisgebeatha» which means «water of life». 3. The earliest known record of whiskey production dates back to 1494, but the word whiskey was not seen until 1715. 4. The drink must be aged in oak barrels for at least three years before it can be called whiskey. 5. A six-liter Lalique decanter of Macallan whiskey sold at auction for a record $ 628,000 last year. 6. The main whiskey drinkers in the world are the French, followed by Uruguay and the United States. 7. During prohibition, an exemption was made for whiskey prescribed by a doctor and sold through a pharmacy. The Walgreens pharmacy chain grew from 20 retail stores to nearly 400 during this period, from 1920 to 1933. 8. Bill Wilson, the founder of "Alcoholics Anonymous" asked for whiskey on his deathbed, but the nurse did not give it to him. 9. Jameson sells more Irish whiskey than all other Irish producers combined. Almost half of all Jamesons, $ 1.8 billion annually, are sold in the US, where it sells 13 times more whiskey than its closest competitor. 10. The largest whiskey producer in the world is in India.

The silence isn't just deafening. It's dangerous. Over the past week, The Washington Post asked all 249 current Republican House members and Senators a simple question: Who won the election? Just 29 responded. Of that group, 27 - whether in prior public statements or in response to the Post's survey - said they believed that President-elect Joe Biden had won while two (GOP Reps. Mo Brooks of Alabama and Paul Gosar of Arizona) said that Donald Trump won. Which means that 220 House and Senate Republicans refused to take a position on who won the 2020 election. Which is 88% of all of the Republicans in Congress. Which is stunning. It's stunning because, well, it's not a hard question. At all. Here are the facts: Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden has, to date, received 81,284,062 votes (51.3%) to Trump's 74,221,849 (46.9%). In the face of those facts, Trump and his allies - led by Rudy Giuliani, who is now off the election fraud beat after testing positive for coronavirus on Sunday - have offered up a series of conspiracy theories (Hugo Chavez!), Debunked anecdotes (ballots being burned!) and frivolous lawsuit (Trump's legal team has "won" one of the 39 lawsuits it has brought regarding the vote count). Saying that we need to consider both sides of this argument equally is an utter farce. It's as though one side is arguing that 2 +2 = 4 and the other side is saying that 2+ 2 = 5, and we have to act as though both arguments are equally valid. And it's actually worse than that. Because while we can dismiss the 2 + 2 = 5 crowd without much concern about the impact of their bad math on the rest of the country, we can't do that with what Trump is doing. Because what Trump is doing is actively working to undermine one of the central tenets of democracy: The belief that - whether or not your preferred candidate won - the presidential vote was conducted fairly and safely, and accurately reflects the will of the American public . This isn't a minor thing. Because if some decent chunk of the po[CENSORED]tion is so convinced - facts be damned - that Trump won and the election was stolen from him, it leads to events like we saw in Michigan on Saturday night: A group of armed protesters surrounded the home of Democratic Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson demanding that she "stop the steal" of the election from the President. According to CNN's reporting of the incident: "Benson said her 4-year-old son was about to start watching 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' on Saturday night when a group of protesters began chanting into bullhorns in front of her house. "The protesters made 'unambiguous, loud and threatening' demands to overturn the election results, which the state certified in late November, she said in a statement." Appalling displays like that one need to be laid directly at the feet of Trump, yes. But the 88% of elected Republicans in the House and Senate who refused to answer the Post's question on who won the election shouldn't escape blame, either. The longer these Republicans allow Trump to publicly engage in this political fantasy, the more frequent incidents like what happened this weekend will grow. That is just a fact. What's truly remarkable about all of this is that the vast majority of Republican elected officials know, of course, that Biden won. Witness Kelly Loeffler's answer during a debate on Sunday night. Or this from Biden during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper: "I say this tactfully. There have been more than several sitting Republican senators who've privately called me and congratulated me." Why not say it publicly, then? Because they are afraid of a) Trump and b) their own party base. Silence is their best strategic course because it allows them to avoid provoking Trump while also not saying something ("Trump won") that they know is false. But this silence has consequences. Dangerous ones. Which is why every Republican member of Congress who has so far refused to say who won the election should be asked that same question - over and over again - until they actually answer it.

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President Donald Trump expanded his extraordinary efforts to overturn the election Saturday, attempting to pressure Georgia's governor to force a special session of the legislature to change the result, while using an evening rally for two GOP Senate candidates to rant about his own grievances and thrash Republican leaders who have not done his bidding. It was more evidence that the President will spend the remaining days of his presidency ignoring the deadly course of the pandemic, spreading falsehoods that amount to an attack on democracy and nursing his own grudges even if that works against the interests of his own party. The purpose of Trump's visit to Valdosta was to get voters mobilized and primed to support Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in January's Senate runoffs that will determine control of the US Senate. Trump's relentless claims of voter fraud in Georgia have alarmed many GOP leaders who fear they may lead many Republican voters to stay home. But in his seemingly endless narcissism, Trump found it difficult to keep the focus on Loeffler and Perdue, repeatedly turning back to his own complaints and made only passing references to the alarming rise in Covid-19 cases nationally at a rally where almost no one wore masks and there was no social distancing. He made up fantastical stories about votes in suitcases, re-litigated his election tallies in battleground states and suggested that he will be successful in reversing the November results where President-elect Joe Biden beat him with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. "We will still win it, "he said, even though there is no means for him to do so. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud and many states have already certified their results as the vast majority of Trump's baseless legal challenges go down in defeat, meaning that he is merely trying to delay the inevitable as he fights Biden's ascent to the White House. During the Georgia speech, which included a video showcasing his fake claims about election fraud, he alternated between freewheeling lines and his teleprompter script - occasionally trying to thread the between asking Georgians to get out and vote, but then doing further harm to his party by inaccurately claiming that Georgia's election system is fraudulent. The voter registration deadline is Monday and early voting begins December 14. "This election was rigged and we can't let it happen to two of the greatest, most respected people in Washington," he said, pointing to Loeffler and Perdue. "We can't let it happen again. Your governor could stop it very easily if he knew what the hell he was doing." The competing messages were on full display when Trump invited Loeffler and Perdue to the stage to make brief remarks. Loeffler warned the crowd that if they don't vote, Republicans will lose control of the Senate. But the crowd seemed much more interested in the President's claims, drowning out the two candidates by chanting "Stop the steal" and "Fight for Trump!" Trump called their Democratic rivals, Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff "extreme," and at one point said he understands the inclination among many of his supporters to sit out the election. But he urged them not to do so. "If you don't vote, the socialists and the communists - they win," he said. "The answer to the Democrats' fraud is not to stay at home; that's what (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi and (Senate Minority Leader Chuck) Schumer, that's what they want you to do - stay at home," Trump said. "If you want to do something to them - I don't want to use the word revenge, but it is a sense of revenge - to the Democrats, you show up and vote in record numbers." There is no evidence of systematic fraud by Democrats, and Biden won Georgia by 12,000 votes. Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican, said Sunday that the falsehoods Trump is spreading are hurting his party's chances in the runoff elections. "I worry that this continuous, you know, fanning of the flames around misinformation puts us in a negative position with regards to the January 5 runoff," Duncan told CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday on "State of the Union." "The mountains of misinformation are not helping the process, they're only hurting it. And Jake, I worry we are handing off a playbook to the Democrats for January 5, and certainly I can't think of a worse playbook to hand off over the last four or five weeks to the Democrats. "

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