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posted ago by 3stepsahead ago by 3stepsahead +7912 / -2

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.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/26/u-s-supreme-court-declines-change-wisconsins-voting-rules/3670662001/

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ObongoForPrison2020 24 points ago +24 / -0

"In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan gave that notion short shrift, noting Wisconsin's Republican-run Legislature hasn't met since April. Extending the deadline for absentee ballots should have been allowed, she wrote.

'On the scales of both constitutional justice and electoral accuracy, protecting the right to vote in a health crisis outweighs conforming to a deadline created in safer days,' Kagan wrote."

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ObongoForPrison2020 13 points ago +13 / -0

It really does give credibility to the idea that literally anybody could do that fucking job.

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Junionthepipeline 5 points ago +5 / -0

The retarded justice

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NeverInterruptEnemy 5 points ago +5 / -0

Sotomayor is way worse than Keegan.

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Junionthepipeline 1 point ago +1 / -0

Apperantly they all suck chinas balls now