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Supreme Court to Let PA, NC Accept Absentee Ballots After Election Day

WASHINGTON — In a pair of decisions welcomed by Democrats, the Supreme Court on Wednesday at least temporarily let election officials in two key battleground states, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, accept absentee ballots for several days after Election Day. In the Pennsylvania case, the court refused a plea from Pennsylvania Republicans that it decide before […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 1:07 am
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Supreme Court Denies GOP Requests To Revive Tighter Ballot Deadlines In N.C.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Wednesday two requests by Republicans that the court revive a tighter deadline for returning absentee ballots in North Carolina. The dispute centered on a consent agreement that the State Board of Elections reached as part of a lawsuit brought by voting rights advocates. The board agreed to extend the receipt […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 29, 2020, 12:03 am
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Supreme Court Won’t Expedite Attempt to Halt Extension of Pennsylvania’s Deadline for Absentee Ballots

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused a plea from Pennsylvania Republicans that it decide before Election Day whether the state can continue counting absentee ballots for three days after Nov. 3. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who joined the court on Tuesday, was expected to be the deciding vote on whether to speed the […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 28, 2020, 11:39 pm
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Should Stay Out of State Election Law

In fact, this part of Bush v. Gore has already been squarely rejected by a landmark 2015 case, Arizona Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. Writing for the court in one of her greatest opinions, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who had emphatically dissented in Bush v. Gore — made clear that when Article I […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 28, 2020, 12:51 pm
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The Supreme Court Might Kill Obamacare. That Could Be a Disaster for Young Adults. – Mother Jones

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Artist and prop-maker Dara Williamson visited the gynecologist for the first time when she was 25, after realizing that her health coverage on her mother’s high-quality insurance plan was set to expire on […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 28, 2020, 10:00 am
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Supreme Court Galvanizes Push for Early Voting by Wisconsin Democrats

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, a professor of public policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, believes the negative impact of the court’s decision on Democrats may have been reduced by the educational campaigns mounted this year by the party and voting rights organizations, including the Milwaukee Urban League and Alpha Kappa Alpha, the sorority of Senator Kamala […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 27, 2020, 9:26 pm
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Wisconsinites Scramble To Get Votes In Early Following Supreme Court Ruling

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats and Republicans in the battleground state of Wisconsin were pushing Tuesday to get 320,000 outstanding absentee ballots returned by the close of polls on Election Day after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to extend the deadline to receive and count ballots, as Democrats had wanted. “This is an all-hands-on-deck final […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 27, 2020, 6:41 pm
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Let’s make Trump and McConnell eat their own crow over the Supreme Court

“I think this nominee will be a political asset for our candidates around the country. Not a liability, but an asset,” he said. He couched that in terms of the 2018 election, which was an entirely different beast with Democrats on the defense in hostile states. He’s well aware that his majority is certainly toast […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 27, 2020, 6:30 pm
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The Supreme Court: should we abolish it?

Author’s note, October 27: This conversation occurred in October 2018, shortly after Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. After Amy Coney Barrett’s rushed confirmation to the Court, just a week before the 2020 election, it feels newly relevant. When he was arguing for the ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the judiciary […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 27, 2020, 2:45 pm
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Supreme Court: 4 cases will reveal who Amy Coney Barrett really is

Well, that happened. Just over one month after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, the Senate voted almost entirely along party lines to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. President Trump has been quite clear that he thinks “it’s very important that we have nine Justices” if we […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 27, 2020, 12:10 pm
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The New Supreme Court – The New York Times

Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Election Day is a week away. There’s new evidence of water on the moon. And Amy Coney Barrett is a Supreme Court justice. Over the past 32 years — a period that includes the naming of every current Supreme Court Justice — Democrats […] More

by Tonya Frazier October 27, 2020, 10:30 am
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‘Fat and Happy’ With a Conservative Court, Are Republicans Losing a Winning Issue?

The confirmation on Monday of Justice Amy Coney Barrett all but ensures a durable conservative majority on the Supreme Court for years to come and provides the capstone on the Trump administration’s broader effort to push the entire federal judiciary solidly to the right. Its work has been so fast and so effective that there […] More

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