The Supreme Court’s “Breathtakingly Radical” New Approach to Election Law

Politico ^ | Nov 22, 2020 | Wendy Weiser and Daniel Weiner

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Their original talking point was that the lawsuits were meaningless and ultimately would come to nothing.

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Second, and even more dangerous, five of the court’s justices have signed onto opinions endorsing a brand new legal theory—that the Constitution gives state legislatures virtually untrammeled authority to set voting rules for federal elections, no matter how arbitrary or unreasonable. This previously discredited theory, which was first articulated by three justices in one of the cases concerning the 2000 presidential election recount in Florida, could insulate most anti-voter laws—from arbitrary voting restrictions to burdensome registration requirements—from constitutional review by federal courts.

New? This legal theory has been around for 232 years, much longer than the very recent ideas that any governmental body can ignore the Constitution / State law if it "helps" people....