The Supreme Court’s “Breathtakingly Radical” New Approach to Election Law

If everyone who tried to vote by mail had been successful, Biden would have won by an even larger margin.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-breathtakingly-radical-approach-120048391.html

 

By Wendy Weiser and Daniel Weiner
Sun, November 22, 2020, 7:00 AM EST

By Wendy Weiser and Daniel Weiner
Sun, November 22, 2020, 7:00 AM EST·8 min read

In the end, the blizzard of lawsuits from President Donald Trump’s campaign will amount to nothing beyond a megaphone for disinformation about the integrity of the 2020 election. As destructive as the president’s attempts to undermine democracy are, the most lasting damage to America’s election system is likely to come instead from a series of Supreme Court rulings that appear perfunctory but actually could restrict voters’ rights for years to come.

In the weeks before Election Day, the court weighed in on more than a dozen cases in a way that many portrayed as a mixed bag for voting rights—allowing voting expansions to stand in some cases and sharply curtailing them in others. But that scorecard approach obscures the principal effect of the court’s rulings: In all of the cases, regardless of whether the Trump campaign won or lost, the justices quietly—yet dramatically—rolled back Americans’ voting rights in ways that could do permanent harm—that is, unless Congress steps in.

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