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Why would the Supreme Court approve such a thing? Wisconsin law is clear: Election Day is "The Day", no exceptions. And the Wisconsin legislature who has the power to extend it, decided not to, Covid or no Covid.
The Supremes made the correct decision: No, Wisconsin made a state law saying ballots received after Nov. 3 could not be tabulated. And the legislature chose not to change it, even though Covid has been around for more than half a year.
Sounds clear to me. If people don't like it, they should have been complaining to their elected representatives who made the law, not to a Court a thousand miles away who has no power to change it.
Supreme Court rejects Democrats' bid to reinstate mail-in ballot extension in Wisconsin
by John Kruzel - 10/26/20 07:46 PM EDT
The Supreme Court on Monday voted 5-3 along ideological lines, with a conservative majority, to deny a bid by Democrats to reinstate a six-day extension for the receipt of mail-in ballots in Wisconsin, a key battleground state in the presidential race.
I haven't read the decision but the summary seems sound. The original federal judge was inserting a provision into the law that didn't exist. The underlying law was constututional so the judge had no grounds to modify it. That was more than interpretation.
I haven't read the decision but the summary seems sound. The original federal judge was inserting a provision into the law that didn't exist. The underlying law was constututional so the judge had no grounds to modify it. That was more than interpretation.
This.
Once again, the Democrats wanted the courts to write the laws. SCOTUS said nope, lawmakers can do that, not the job of the judiciary.
Three leftist justice wanted to rewrite the law. Thank Trump and McConnell we don't have 5 or 6 leftist justices super-legislating and rewriting laws from the bench.
That makes no sense. It’s utterly bizarre that you even connect “wanting people to be able to vote” with hating people.
And their votes will count if they get the vote in by election day. Democrats want to send in votes after the election day ends and the results are being calculated to change the outcome.
That makes no sense. It’s utterly bizarre that you even connect “wanting people to be able to vote” with hating people.
If they cast them on or before Nov 3, then their vote counts no sweat. So says the lawmakers of Wisconsin who write the laws for and are accountable to the people in Wisconsin.
If there was a 6 day grace period being added, it needed to be done by those same lawmakers, not a judge yanking a number out of thin air and "amending" the existing law outside the legislative process. Judges do not make law, they adjudicate it.
SCOTUS called this right.
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