The key words aren’t the ones in yellow highlight; they’re Alito saying that the court wasn’t aware (and was therefore surprised) that the October 28 order had been changed and that the Secretary as of the time of the order wasn’t able to say that the counties were segregating as the order supposedly told them to do. If she couldn’t attest to that yesterday, it’s hard to see how she could attest to it now.
This is actually *very* interesting language.
It is indeed.
And if Alito was going to be content to look the other way, I seriously doubt he’d have written that.
... which is why we always have to read the actual language of these orders. The mainstream outlets can’t even get the deadline right; they keep saying “after Election Day,” but it’s not after Election Day, it’s *after 8 pm on Election Day.” If the statute prevails, and it very well may, any ballot that came in after 8 pm election night is not a valid ballot.
Didn't know election officials could do that - during an election.
The Supremes are going to be pissed that a mere State Level Elections Supervisor flipped them the bird in front of the entire world.
This won’t be pretty.
Happy 20th FReeper Anniversary! :-)