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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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DagnyDocket 132 points ago +132 / -0

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.

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BeerAndCope 12 points ago +12 / -0

I don’t mind it being referred to as a living document, if by that they mean it can be amended. If they mean it’s a living document that changes without being amended and actually changed then that is clearly insane.

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Brobold 7 points ago +8 / -1

Amendments gave us a period of extreme violence and crime with the ban on alcohol. We don't need more amendments.

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HankHayes 6 points ago +6 / -0

Amendments also gave us freedom of speech.