Chris Geidner: Which brings us back to Friday night — and the set-up aspect of Alito’s statement. Alito revealed that, in the wake of Roberts’s “middle ground” note in Moore, he, Thomas, and Gorsuch were open, in the context of Tuesday’s… Continue reading

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