To: Hypo2
Pass the laws, SCOTUS has no say in state election laws, as they claimed last Friday.Not exactly.
All election laws must be constitutional.
To: FreeReign
Who doesn’t have a birth certificate or too idiotic to procure their birth certificate?
Also, where in the Constituion gives the Federal government the power to prohibit States from verifying qualifications of legal voters reside at?
To: FreeReign
"All election laws must be constitutional."
Article 1, Section 4, clause applies to Federal elections/State powers, which primarily was HOR elections for a while. Federal Congress can regulate, but State/local elections are wide open. For instance, several States allowed women to vote in certain elections long before the 19th Amendment. Heck, States were "disfranchising voters" left and right concerning the amount of property women owned or allowing women to vote who had school age children. Again wide-open due to the States having autonomy at the time. Now it's basically federalized with universal suffrage using case law and "interpretations"/Judicial equity such as the case in OPs article.
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