Conservatives believe in federalism, so they wouldn’t be happy about federal courts telling states how to count their votes — right? Conservatives believe in judicial restraint, so they wouldn’t be happy about federal judges stretching the law to stop states from counting votes — right?Follow the latest on Election 2020
Think again. President Trump’s campaign and its supporters have filed lawsuits in federal courts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that would appall the framers of the Constitution and should be rejected by the kind of originalist judges that Trump has helped install on the federal bench.
Indeed, Trump’s foray into federal court is asking for unprecedented intervention in a presidential election, a move that would contravene basic premises of how the resolution of a dispute over presidential ballots is designed to operate.