The court's 5-3 ruling means that absentee ballots will be counted only if they are in the hands of municipal clerks by the time polls close on Nov. 3.
The justices determined the courts shouldn't be the ones to decide the election rules amid the coronavirus pandemic that is surging in Wisconsin and across the world.
"The Constitution provides that state legislatures — not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state officials — bear primary responsibility for setting election rules," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion.
So SCOTUS already ruled this, these states ignored the ruling and did it their own way specifically going against the SCOTUS ruling, and are now saying SCOTUS can’t overturn it now because it’s already done and it would be a big mess.
It honestly doesn’t even seem possible that SCOTUS could not side with Trump on this. This must have been why so many close to Trump have been so confident Trump will win. They’ve known this was coming all along and knew it was already ruled in their favor a few months ago. Holy shit.
I’m sure the state legislatures want cover to do that. If scotus rules in Trump’s favor on anything in the lawsuit that should be enough cover for them to say the way the state government handled the election was unconstitutional so they are picking electors themselves.
Do you think they were unawares abou the ruling?