Note: This is the worst Supreme Court, ever. Chief Justice Roberts has completed his transition into a Trump toady with this decision. This was a softball question. He could have used justice and common sense to decide and instead he led the Court to make a completely nonsensical, idiotic decision based on partisan politics and narrow, technical legal wording of the law. He no longer has the right to beat the title of chief justice. He is a hack attorney that got lucky.
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The other three dissenting justices all signed Justice Ginsburg’s opinion; she spoke for them all. Her final paragraph is worth quoting in full:
“The majority of the court declares that this case presents a ‘narrow, technical question.’ That is wrong. The question here is whether tens of thousands of Wisconsin citizens can vote safely in the midst of a pandemic. Under the District Court’s order, they would be able to do so. Even if they receive their absentee ballot in the days immediately following Election Day, they could return it. With the majority’s stay in place, that will not be possible. Either they will have to brave the polls, endangering their own and others’ safety. Or they will lose their right to vote, through no fault of their own. That is a matter of utmost importance — to the constitutional rights of Wisconsin’s citizens, the integrity of the state’s election process, and in this most extraordinary time, the health of the nation.”
