“The Partisan Court Blocks Extended Voting in Ohio”

Jesse Wegman blogs at NYT’s Taking Note blog: “There are reasonable arguments to be made about why these particular restrictions are not the most burdensome in the country, since Ohio already has four weeks of early voting. Still, the plaintiffs made the argument — accepted by a federal trial court and a three-judge appeals panel — that the cuts violated both the Equal Protection Clause and the battered-but-still-standing Voting Rights Act.”

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