Spot on: Did the majority find Virginia’s statutory arguments more persuasive than the Fourth Circuit (and the district court) had? Did it disagree with the Fourth Circuit’s refusal to apply Purcell? Did it believe that Virginia really was suffering “irreparable harm”… Continue reading

Here is the order: All the Republican-appointed Justices voted to allow the purge and all the Democratic-appointed Justices dissented. The argument was that this last minute purge violated the National Voter Registration Act’s ban on systematic cleaning of voting rolls… Continue reading

Yesterday I linked to a week-old story about how the chances of being alerted of a problem with your mail ballot and being able to cure it depended on where you live. It raises questions of unequal treatment of voters… Continue reading

Docket. RNC filing raising “independent state legislature theory” and trying to apply Purcell to state courts. It asks for a sequestration of ballots in the alternative. Response due Wednesday. My earlier coverage.

Steve Vladeck on emergency election litigation at, or almost at, SCOTUS: RFK ballot access, PA provisional ballots, VA voter purge. He also says this about the 5th Circuit Mississippi ruling: And then there’s the Fifth Circuit—which, in a case out… Continue reading

Adam Liptak NYT column: Eight years ago, before revelations about luxury travel and gifts accepted by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., the Supreme Court considered the case of a politician who had been prosecuted for… Continue reading

Casey Schmidt has written this student note for the Virginia Law Review. Here is the abstract: The Purcell Principle—the doctrine that courts should refrain from changing election rules during the period of time close to an election—has long been misconstrued.… Continue reading