Is there any recourse to a SCOTUS ruling? They just ruled 6-3 to allow VA to purge voter rolls within 1 WEEK of an

[Igel]

35. A few things.

1. Virginia's following a law that's been around for a while, used by (D) and (R) governors--it's not a new whimsical thing.

2. This "program" just runs through people that said they weren't citizens and who registered. Perhaps they indicated that by accident; still, they said they weren't eligible to vote then registered. If it's by accident, they had a chance to correct the error. It's not a wholesale purge based on last names, but on self-reporting.

3. The specificity and case-by-case nature opens the door to questioning whether this qualifies as a "program," as alleged in the plaintiff's case against Virginia. Note that this claim has *not* been adjudicated and is still an allegation that awaits a trial court to so much as hear evidence. Hence the "scare quotes" in (2). If you only hear one side of the issue you've only heard one side of the issue and it seems convincing; that's usually the case, esp. if you're not given the text of the statute involved and the details of what was done.

I like a quote from a sci-fi show: “Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.” That's the court system as intended: there's the plaintiff, the defendant, and from that thesis and antithesis presumably a judge and/or jury can sort out the truth. (This is the Anglo-Saxon way; most of Europe follows Roman law, where the judge is really in charge ... The Roman legal system as reflected in Europe is really much more like the Russian legal system than the Anglo-American one.)