Justice Kagan Says Supreme Court “Failed” to Protect Voters Amid Pandemic ["Covid, covid, covid..." Dem mantra]

Tennessee Tribune ^ | 10/29/2020 | Staff

[simpson96]

he liberal justices dissented as the Supreme Court ruled against extending Wisconsin’s deadline to count mailed-in ballots received after Election Day.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan slammed the court’s decision not to extend the deadline to receive mail-in ballots in Wisconsin and said it would “disenfranchise” voters in a pandemic.

In a Monday ruling, the Supreme Court sided with Republicans in its decision to block Wisconsin from counting mail-in ballots that are received after Election Day, Nov. 3.

“The Court’s decision will disenfranchise large numbers of responsible voters in the midst of hazardous pandemic conditions,” Kagan wrote in her dissent, joined by liberal justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

The justices were split 5-3, with the conservative majority negating a lower court’s ruling that had ordered mailed ballots to be counted if postmarked before Nov. 3 and received up to six days after Election Day, as they had been during the state’s primary.

In her dissent, Kagan noted that the COVID–19 pandemic “has turned in-person voting (with its often-long lines, touch screens, and enclosed booths) into a health risk.” (snip)

“As the COVID pandemic rages, the Court has failed to adequately protect the Nation’s voters,” Kagan wrote.

[Jimmy The Snake]

I am confused - Why can the Supreme Court say it is not OK for WI to count mail in ballots received after election day, BUT it is OK to count ballots received in NC for 3 days after election day as long as they are post marked (what about no post mark?) by election day. Would this rule be imposed the same?

[eyeamok]

It isn’t the Courts job to “protect the people”, the Court Interprets LAWS enacted by the Legislature and Signed by the Executive Branch and the Constitution.

This should be Grounds for Immediate Removal and then Impeachment

[Western Phil]

I am sure it depends upon state law. Illinois allows received after election day, but they have to be postmarked before poll closing time on election day. Mail in and absentee are not to be counted until after poll closing.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Leave it to the media to fail to notice that SCOTUS has reached different substantive results in different cases regarding the counting of ballots. Why? Because the Court is following state law, as it should. When valid state law authorizes the late counting of ballots, SCOTUS has let it ride. But when activist judges or power-hungry politicians try to extend voting beyond what state law provides, they have struck it down.

SCOTUS is doing exactly what it should be doing.

[glennaro]

Covid, covid, covid is really all the Democrats/Leftists/Communists have to run on.

[Fledermaus]

Its not your job Supreme Court.

Hey Sonja, try reading the Constitution just once.