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A Supreme Court Showdown Over Federal Judges Rewriting State Election Laws Based on COVID is at Hand
Over the past four weeks we have seen a slew of federal district court and appellate court decisions impacting the terms and enforcement of state election laws in several states across the country.
As a general proposition, efforts are being undertaken by litigants in numerous jurisdictions to claim that the risk to voters created by COVID 19 is such that (m)any state election laws which impose limits on the ability of voters to cast ballots without having to go to a polling location, or which limit the time- frame within which remotely-cast ballots can be received in order to be counted, constitute violations of the right to vote under the terms of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. //
So you can see where the lower court judges are finding their “justification for rewriting election rules more to the liking of plaintiffs who — in every case I’ve looked at — are Democrat party interest groups.