Maybe it's hope, maybe it's hopium. Only time will tell. But now that my initial emotions over the SCOTUS dismissal of the Texas case are calming down a little, the two comments quoted below have me willing to give SCOTUS a tiny grain of the benefit of a doubt regarding why they ruled as they did and how they'll treat the pending cases. Just a grain, mind you, but it's something.
By prayharder:
Now that I've had time to reflect on it, I now feel that today's ruling was in some ways positive, and in other ways inconsequential.
There are already four other cases head to SCOTUS, based on actual evidence and actual damages.
The case today was based on relatively little evidence of election fraud, compared to the other cases, and was based on the claim that Texas has a say in how other states choose their electors.
The biggest problem with what happened today is that I watched a few minutes of Steven Crowder, and I bought into the idea that this Texas case is "the big one" which I should pin all my hopes on. Whereas, in reality, if I was a justice on the SCOTUS, and if I believe election fraud had taken place, I would absolutely dismiss today's case, so I can focus on one of the other election fraud cases.
Man... crazy times we live in, where we freak out over nothing. From a legal perspective, today's dismissal has absolutely nothing to do with SCOTUS being biased against listening to evidence of election fraud, I now believe...!
https://thedonald.win/p/11R4JGEHkU/x/c/4Dqddgq4n9Z
A response to prayharder's comment by FreedomOverAll:
As well as the precedent that allowing for a state to sue another state due to their laws would bring. Yes, we are aware that these states have violated the Constitution, but Texas is not directly impacted by their actions. Yes, if they are allowed to succeed, then it impacts Texas because they have to live under the same President as everyone else. But allowing one state to sue another for their laws that do not affect their own laws... that would lead to the end of federalism in our country as we know it.