Supreme Court sides mostly with Republicans in last-minute voting cases

No surprise.  This is one of the reasons republicans have been pushing so hard to get their people dominating the courts.

https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-sides-mostly-republicans-125947694.html

Pete Williams
,NBC News•October 24, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court has faced a stream of last-minute appeals over election procedures since the spring, and most of the time it has rejected calls to allow less restrictive voting measures despite the pandemic.

That has generally meant that Republicans prevailed in seeking to block changes that would make it easier to vote during the Covid-19 era, especially in casting mail-in ballots. Of 11 election-related cases filed as emergency appeals since April, Republican interests won in eight.

"I think a deference to the states is at work here," said Edward Foley, an expert on election law at Moritz College of law at the Ohio State University.

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Paul Smith of the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, who frequently argues election cases in federal court, agrees.

"There seems to be some feeling on the Supreme Court that state election officials should be left alone to make their judgment," he said.

At the same time, he added, that has tended to allow Republicans to prevail, limiting voting opportunities.

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