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.
Remember the Constitution? Or is that just an old piece of paper now
It’s a living document, they say. I heard Scalia speak years ago during law school, before Trump, in the thick of the liberal academic indoctrination. And Scalia loathed the lie of the living document. That was the day I really started to wake up.
Ginsburg is the biggest proof that they thought they couldn’t lose. They knew she was going to croak but they believed their own bs polls.