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.
The part that bugs me is that the state legislatures could end this tomorrow if they get off their asses and did their job.
This whole thing is a political game of chicken. The cowards in the state legislatures are waiting for the Supreme Court to allow them to do what the Constitution clearly spells out. This whole Supreme Court case is political theater.
Even if the court takes this case on (big if, with any Pontius Pilate court), the very best outcome we could expect is at the court says: "Hey, state legislators. Get off your ass and vote for electors."
Which is exactly what the State Legislatures could do right now. Truly mad.