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While the Supreme Court’s ruling likely puts an end to one prong of the president’s attacks on voting, the battle isn’t over for Trump. He and his MAGA allies will now attempt to turn their fury at the courts into a catalyst for new federal and state voter suppression measures.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of the GOP’s attempt to upend mail voting Monday marked a major win not only for the millions of Americans who vote by mail but also for the millions of other people who cast their ballots in person at early voting sites.
The Republican National Committee sued Nevada, marking the third GOP lawsuit against overseas voters within a week and the latest escalation in a fast-moving national campaign to restrict voting access for U.S. citizens abroad.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s announcement Monday that it will hear a case on two Arizona voting laws could spell danger for a key federal protection that prevents voters from being removed from the rolls right before an election.
The Supreme Court Monday declined to take up a challenge to a Texas law that prohibits voters from receiving help with filling out or submitting their ballot from a person who is compensated for that service.
In a dissenting opinion Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced the Supreme Court for upending almost a century of precedent while granting President Trump power to shape the federal government through arbitrary dismissals.
The right also used the decision to bolster an ongoing push for President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act — though the measure does not address the issue at stake in the case.
The Supreme Court upended nearly a century of legal precedent Monday by formally endorsing President Donald Trump’s dismissal of the last Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission.
The U.S. Supreme Court blessed grace periods for ballots mailed by Election Day Thursday, preserving pro-voter laws in 14 states.
The move strongly indicates the Supreme Court will take up the case, Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections.