Over the last four years, Democrats have cried out about defending democracy. They made a big stink out of it for some legitimate and illegitimate reasons. All those beliefs went out the window in the last two weeks since Democrats refused to accept the results of the Pennsylvania Senate race—and not just reject those results but actively tried to overturn them.

That attempt erupted with force when Democratic election officials in Bucks, Philadelphia, and Montgomery counties, among others, unilaterally decided to throw the law out the window and decide which ballots counted and which didn't. Democratic officials declared the laws "stupid," and decided to count ballots deemed illegitimate.

The law firm, headed by Democratic insider Marc Elias, is targeting counties where voters are more likely to be found for Democratic candidate Bob Casey. The rules where these "bad ballots" could help Republicans - namely, every other county in Pennsylvania - aren't at the center of the lawsuit.

If this sounds familiar, it's because it's identical to what Democrats argued in the infamous Bush v. Gore case, where Gore only wanted recounts in critical counties for him, not everywhere in Florida. The Casey campaign is attempting a similar trick here, claiming "every vote counts," while only looking at Democratic-leaning countries.

It should be said that this isn't an unclear question under Pennsylvania law. On Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled for the third time that these counties must comply with the law. All that was missing was one of the judges screaming at the Democratic officials to obey the letter of the law, as they'd been instructed multiple times.

Justice Wecht wrote in a concurrence, "It is critical to the rule of law that individual counties and municipalities and their elected and appointed officials, like any other parties, obey orders of this Court. As Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote: "If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. . . . The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance."

Justice Brobson was even more blunt. "I write separately to disabuse local elections officials of the notion that they have the authority to ignore Election Code provisions that they believe are unconstitutional.1 Only the courts under our charter may declare a statute, or provision thereof, unconstitutional."

This is nothing more than pure lawfare in an attempt to downplay the votes of others, evade the law, and steal an election. There's no mathematical path for Bob Casey to win this race. Democrats are attempting to defy the law and daring anyone to challenge them. There's nothing more here.

Local Democrats tried to claim that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's rulings were unclear. The per curiam opinion and concurrences should lay that to rest. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court sees nothing more than local Democratic Party operatives declaring themselves beyond the law and deciding whose vote counts.

What's to stop these same officials from discounting Republican voters in a similar sweep? The faux-outrage that some votes don't count is buried under an avalanche of absurdity when you realize they don't care about the other counties in the state.

John Fetterman, who likes to play a straight-talker on television, suddenly lost his common sense when asked about it. He downplayed everything, including the actions of election officials he helped install. Governor Josh Shapiro has just tried to remain silent on the topic while Democratic partisans rip apart the legitimacy of the election in the battleground state.

Even The Washington Post, still in a meltdown over not getting to endorse Kamala Harris, blasted Democrats. The Post wrote, "the mere attempt to defy judicial rulings is corrosive to democracy and invites similar behavior in future elections." They added, "Pennsylvania Democratic elected officials should take heed, especially if they want to continue claiming theirs is the party of democracy."

We don't have to wait. This is the same Democratic Party that attempted the same trick in 2000, blamed Diebold Voting machines in 2004, and Russia in 2016. Now, they're trying to evade the law and overturn a Senate campaign result.

Kamala Harris claims she stands for the peaceful transfer of power. Maybe she should actually put those words to work and put Pennsylvania Democrats on notice. However, if she did that, she'd have to stop fundraising off the Casey campaign's recount effort to pay off her campaign debt.

It's a mess from the top to the bottom. The McCormick campaign and national Republicans are pouring attorneys, resources, and more into the effort to defend the election. And they're asking for a simple thing: follow the law that the state Supreme Court has laid down three times in a row, demanding officials follow it.

We'll see if Democrats comply. If not, state and federal authorities will have to start making arrests in Pennsylvania. That's how serious this is getting.