What now?
Today's decision is EXTREMELY vulnerable to reversal at the 4th Circuit. The majority orders a "remedy" that flagrantly violates the equal protection clause—forcing those who voted in just a handful of counties to prove their identity ... or have their ballots nullified.
Today's decision is EXTREMELY vulnerable to reversal at the 4th Circuit. The majority orders a "remedy" that flagrantly violates the equal protection clause—forcing those who voted in just a handful of counties to prove their identity ... or have their ballots nullified.
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Am I missing something?
Just waiting for Johnny R to say, ah, but (a) they said this wasn't a precedent and (b) if it were a precedent, the precedent would be that the Republican wins
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Another doozy decision.
If they don't get it in district court, I remain cautiously optimistic that the 4th Circuit will provide it, and SCOTUS will let that decision stand.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right?
We are supporting Justice Riggs and NC Dem Party as they valiantly fight to ensure Riggs’ lawful election.
The principle in Bush v Gore wasn’t “different standards violates equal protection”—it was “the republican wins”
It will not bode well for free and fair elections in 2026/28
Alito will just post an upside-down flag in his dissent, flying on the boat of Clarence Thomas's latest yacht host.
His dissent (written midway through a free fishing in Alaska) will draw from the tradition of English Common Law to show that so-called votes are only legitimate if they express the monarch's divinely inspired will.
Imagine we have to be cautiously optimistic that our judges uphold their oaths to our United States Constitution?
This should not even be happening in America.
There is already an ongoing federal case, where the court reserved judgment on the federal issues under its jurisdiction while the state-court proceedings unfolded.
Now maybe they're wrong in that the ones to be thrown out are all heavily Griffin votes, but they really have nothing to lose trying— except democracy.
They are retroactively changing the rules for an election that already happened, in order to get the result they want.