Adam Liptak for the NYT: In a little over a week, the Supreme Court issued five sets of orders in election cases. In three of them, Democrats prevailed.Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote an opinion in only one of… Continue reading

Ned Foley in WaPo: The center holds at the Supreme Court in voting cases, at least for now, and that is a very good thing.In rulings from the presidential battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Chief Justice… Continue reading

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Given yesterday’s developments at the Supreme Court out of North Carolina, this result is expected. The same three Justices (Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas) noted their dissents. From the Supreme Court press office: “Justice Barrett did not participate in the consideration… Continue reading

Adam Liptak with a cogent recap of yesterday’s action. You can find my analyses from yesterday of the PA and NC rulings.

You can find the Court’s order, along with Justice Gorsuch’s dissent, at this link. Justice Alito joined Gorsuch’s dissent; Justice Thomas noted his disagreement with the majority but did not sign the dissent. Justice Barrett again did not participate.… Continue reading

PA Home Page: After a second vote, Luzerne County Council voted 7-4 to withdraw the motion to request Justice Barrett’s recusal in the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the mail-in ballot extension…. Councilmen Walter Griffith and Haas spoke up saying… Continue reading

Nina Totenberg for NPR: But as Case Western Reserve law professor Jonathan Adler observes, “as odd as it may seem, federal judges are under no obligation to recuse in cases involving a prior benefactor, and there is no precedent for… Continue reading