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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKavanaugh has wild ideas about voting. They likely won't matter on Election Day.
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Rick Hasen unpacks Kavanaugh's concurrence in the Wisconsin case
Perspective | Kavanaugh has wild ideas about voting. They likely wont matter on Election Day.
The Supreme Courts recent rulings dont mean the justices will decide the presidential race.
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Blake News
@blakehounshell
Rick Hasen unpacks Kavanaugh's concurrence in the Wisconsin case
Perspective | Kavanaugh has wild ideas about voting. They likely wont matter on Election Day.
The Supreme Courts recent rulings dont mean the justices will decide the presidential race.
washingtonpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/27/brett-kavanaugh-election-opinion/
Should we panic about Justice Brett M. Kavanaughs concurring opinion in the Wisconsin voting case that the Supreme Court decided Monday night? Does it mean that the Supreme Court is going to do something crazy that will hand the election to President Trump even if Joe Biden is ahead in the count?
The short answer is that an intervention by the Supreme Court to decide the presidential election is still extremely unlikely but if the extremely unlikely happens, theres great reason to be worried about the courts protection of voting rights and the integrity of the vote.
As I have been watching all the election litigation as it works its way up and down the courts, I did not expect the Wisconsin ruling to be a major one. The Supreme Court had sent a consistent signal before deciding this case that federal courts should not be easing voting rules even during the pandemic and that there should be deference to state rules. A federal-district court had extended the deadline for the receipt of absentee ballots in Wisconsin because of delays in delivering mail during the pandemic, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, following the Supreme Courts lead, reversed that order. Democrats and voting rights groups, inexplicably thinking they would do better before the voter-hostile Supreme Court, took the case up and lost Monday night.
So the result another 5-3 split along party and ideological lines, with conservatives on the court once again siding with the state against those expanding voting rights was no surprise. The court did not issue a majority opinion, but it issued 35 pages of individual opinions for the justices, and Kavanaughs opinion has gotten the most attention. That one did have some surprises.
Kavanaughs opinion advanced a controversial theory about near-absolute power of state legislatures to set rules in federal elections. It also was sloppy in talking about facts and the law, and it echoed Trumps false talking points about the perils of voting by mail.
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Kavanaugh has wild ideas about voting. They likely won't matter on Election Day. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2020
OP
Great, a boofing drunk uncle is inveighing on the essentials of democracy.
ResistantAmerican17
Oct 2020
#1
Beerdrops has no "ideas" about voting. Whatever helps the GOP is his opinion.
BlueNProud
Oct 2020
#4
ResistantAmerican17
(3,825 posts)1. Great, a boofing drunk uncle is inveighing on the essentials of democracy.
What could go wrong?
Tatertot
(94 posts)2. A useful ruling
When trump wants to ignore the properly postmarked but late ballots states laws should be fully complied with. When trump wants to certify on nov3. States laws must be fully complied with. When Trump argues that a different set of electors can be installed by the legislature over the wishes of the electorate, state laws must be full complied with. Use their own damn opinions against them.
Blue Owl
(50,505 posts)3. Hey dude Kavanaugh's doing ballot bongs in the basement
n/t
BlueNProud
(1,048 posts)4. Beerdrops has no "ideas" about voting. Whatever helps the GOP is his opinion.
These mediocre, unqualified "Justices" are the equivalent of Mitch McConnell in black robes.