Update to Democrats Advocate For Voting Rights; Republicans Advocate For Voter Suppression. Last year, the Queen of GOP voter suppression, Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita (R-Scottsdale), tried to remove voters from the PEVL list who do not return their ballots in two consecutive election cycles. Her bill died in the legislature only because COVID-19 shut down the … Read more
Law professors Akhil Reed Amar, Vikram David Amar and Neal Kumar Katyal warn in a New York Times op-ed, The Supreme Court Should Not Muck Around in State Election Laws: Just as they did in the infamous Bush v. Gore litigation in 2000, Republican lawyers are trying to get the Supreme Court to undermine state … Read more
For the second time in one day on Wednesday, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to block a state’s extension for the receipt and counting of mail-in votes beyond Election Day, this time in North Carolina. Supreme Court Rejects Trump Campaign’s Bid to Block Mail-in Voting Extension in N.C.: The ruling fell hours after … Read more
States administer federal elections under the U.S. Constitution. A state Supreme Court interpretation of its own state constitution is entitled to due deference from the federal courts. These two principles should have made this case a no-brainer, but four conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court demonstrated that they are willing to disregard these principles. … Read more
In an extraordinary dissenting opinion, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Karen Nelson Moore called out the Republican corruption of the federal courts in support of the “concentrated effort” of GOP voter suppression. (h/t Election Law Blog). Judge Moore was appointed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1995 by President Bill Clinton. She graduated … Read more