Category Archives: Supreme Court

Breaking: Without Noted Dissent, Supreme Court Denies Relief in Rep. Kelly PA Voting Case That Sought to Disenfranchise State’s Voters (This is The One I Said Had the Dumbest SCOTUS Argument I’ve Ever Seen)

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Justice Alito referred it to the whole Court. Earlier: Perhaps the Dumbest Argument Ever Made in Emergency Petition to the Supreme Court Appears in Pennsylvania Election Case Anyone who thought that the Supreme Court was going to save Trump in… Continue reading

Texas Asks Supreme Court for Permission to Sue Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin Over How They Conducted the Election, To Disenfranchise Voters in These States and Let State Legislators Choose Electors. It Won’t Work

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I may need to take back what I said about Rep. Kelly’s PA suit being the dumbest case I’ve ever seen filed on an emergency basis at the Supreme Court. This new one from the indicted Texas AG Ken Paxton… Continue reading

As Path to Overturn Pennsylvania Election Results Closes Completely, Trump Campaign Apparently Abandons Seeking Supreme Court Emergency Relief in Third Circuit Case

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Philadelphia Inquirer: If its fate had not been abundantly clear already, President Donald Trump’s dream of having Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature overturn the state’s election results received what appeared to be its final death blows Thursday with a late-night order… Continue reading

Unanimous 4th Circuit Panel Applies “Presumption of Good Faith” in Upholding 2018 North Carolina Voter ID Law, Despite Finding That 2013 Voter ID Law Was Passed with Racially Discriminatory Intent

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You can find the 29-page opinion at this link (via WRAL). The opinion leans heavily on the Supreme Court’s use of a presumption of legislative good faith in Abbott, despite an earlier history of racially discriminatory conduct. I recently wrote… Continue reading

“Federal Court Review of State Court Interpretations of State Laws that Regulate Federal Elections: Debunking the ‘Independent State Legislature’ Notion Once and for all, and Keeping Federal Judges to Their Important but Limited Lanes”

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Vik Amar has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the weeks leading up to and following Election Day 2020, Republican litigants, taking cues from a minority group of Justices, asked federal courts to undo state election… Continue reading