Supreme Court won't extend Wisconsin ballot deadline

[Polybius]

Source: Politico

The Supreme Court has declined to reinstate a court-ordered extension of the deadline for the receipt of absentee ballots in Wisconsin, siding with Republicans in a pitched battle over election procedures amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The justices split, 5-3, along ideological lines, with all the court’s Republican appointees voting to reject the six-day extension a U.S. District Court judge issued last month in the key presidential swing state.

The high court brushed aside complaints from Democrats and civil rights groups that enforcing the usual deadline of Election Day could leave thousands of ballots uncounted due to postal service changes and the massive number of voters seeking to vote by mail instead of in person.

The order from the justices emerged just before the Senate voted to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett as President Donald Trump’s newest nominee to the high court. Barrett will be sworn in in a private ceremony on Tuesday, after another ceremony at the White House late Monday.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/supreme-court-wont-extend-wisconsin-ballot-deadline-432656

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Not a good day today...

[KS Toronado]

1. Without RBG there, the court is starting to make a mockery of fairness.

[onenote]

3. With RBG there the vote would have been 5-4 not 5-3

Same outcome

[Polybius]

7. And now it will be 6-3

Sad.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. This is why you don't put politicians where judges should be. nt

[dalton99a]

4. The Supreme Court has been an auxiliary of the Republican Party since 2000.

It is a fucking joke.

[pecosbob]

5. "They have sown the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind."

[RDANGELO]

6. This is sick.

The object of any election is to determine the will of the voters. If you don't count all of the votes, you didn't do that, therefore you didn't have an election. If in person voters are in line when the polls close, they are allowed to vote since it is no fault of there own. This is the same concept with late mail in ballots post marked before election day. This is absurd.

[pfitz59]

8. Top-down disenfranchisement

Since 2000. "The recount was in progress on December 9 when the United States Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 vote (Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer dissenting), granted Bush's emergency plea for a stay of the Florida Supreme Court recount ruling, stopping the incomplete recount." The horror continues...

[diva77]

9. Legalizing election fraud. The Roberts' Five should have their mugs displayed

on the 'Most Wanted' wall at the Post Office

K&R for exposure.