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2020-04-07 22:39:01 UTC
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/wisconsin-supreme-court-halts-absentee-
ballot-deadline-extension.html
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to reverse an order extending the
absentee ballot deadline for voting in the Wisconsin elections scheduled
for Tuesday, stepping into a back-and-forth between Democrats and
Republicans in the state over when voting would take place.
Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, signed an executive order suspending in-
person voting in the state earlier on Monday after trying and failing to
convince the GOP-dominated state legislature to postpone elections until
May. His order was blocked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the evening.
The top court, in an unsigned opinion from which the four liberal justices
dissented, reasoned that extending the date by which voters could mail
absentee ballots fundamentally alters the nature of the election.
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to reverse an order extending the
absentee ballot deadline for voting in the Wisconsin elections scheduled
for Tuesday, stepping into a back-and-forth between Democrats and
Republicans in the state over when voting would take place.
Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, signed an executive order suspending in-
person voting in the state earlier on Monday after trying and failing to
convince the GOP-dominated state legislature to postpone elections until
May. His order was blocked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the evening.
The Supreme Court, which was considering a case brought before Evers
issued his executive order, was not considering whether voting would take
place on Tuesday, but only whether to keep in place an order that extended
the deadline for absentee ballots to be postmarked.
In an unsigned order from which the courts four liberal justices
dissented, the court did away with the extension.
The top courts five Republican-appointees, none of whom attached their
name to the courts order, reasoned that extending the date by which
voters could mail absentee ballots fundamentally alters the nature of the
election.
Wisconsin has decided to proceed with the elections scheduled for
Tuesday, April 7. The wisdom of that decision is not the question before
the Court, the order reads. The question before the Court is a narrow,
technical question about the absentee ballot process.
The case is the first dispute over COVID-19 to reach the justices.
Democrats and voting rights groups had gone to court to push for an
extended deadline, warning that coronavirus fears could keep voters from
the polls. On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld a one-week extension
for absentee ballots.
Republicans asked the Supreme Court to halt that order, issued by the 7th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A last-minute change to a voter deadline carries an increased risk that
voters will not appreciate when votes actually must be cast, Patrick
Strawbridge, the attorney for the Republicans, warned in a filing with the
top court. Strawbridge wrote the Supreme Court should maintain the status
quo of state election laws.
In response, Democrats said that Republicans were ignoring the health
risks posed by coronavirus, which has sickened more than 2,000 in the
state, according to data from local health authorities.
The electoral status quo already has been upended ? not by any judicial
order, but by the COVID-19 pandemic and the voter confusion and electoral
chaos it is causing, wrote Marc Elias, an attorney for the Democrats, in
a brief submitted to the court.
Until very recently, Wisconsin voters reasonably expected they would be
able either to vote safely in person on election day or through a
reliable, well-functioning absentee ballot system, Elias wrote. Now they
cannot ? and not because of any court order, but because of the pandemic.
The order from the Supreme Court puts a heavy emphasis on the fact that
the date for the ballots to be postmarked not just received by elections
officials had been extended. That remedy went beyond what Democrats had
even sought, the court wrote.
By changing the election rules so close to the election date and by
affording relief that the plaintiffs themselves did not ask for in their
preliminary injunction motions, the District Court contravened this
Courts precedents and erred by ordering such relief, the Supreme Court
wrote.
This Court has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should
ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election, the
order reads.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the majoritys decision ill advised
in a dissent joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena
Kagan.
While I do not doubt the good faith of my colleagues, the Courts order,
I fear, will result in massive disenfranchisement, Ginsburg wrote. A
voter cannot deliver for postmarking a ballot she has not received. Yet
tens of thousands of voters who timely requested ballots are unlikely to
receive them by April 7, the Courts postmark deadline.
Wisconsin remains under a shelter-in-place order, signed by Evers, and
federal officials have urged Americans not to gather in groups of 10 or
more until the end of April.
A dozen states and Puerto Rico, a territory, have postponed elections
since the coronavirus pandemic erupted in the United States. The Supreme
Court itself has postponed arguments scheduled for its March and April
sessions because of health concerns related to the virus.
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ballot-deadline-extension.html
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to reverse an order extending the
absentee ballot deadline for voting in the Wisconsin elections scheduled
for Tuesday, stepping into a back-and-forth between Democrats and
Republicans in the state over when voting would take place.
Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, signed an executive order suspending in-
person voting in the state earlier on Monday after trying and failing to
convince the GOP-dominated state legislature to postpone elections until
May. His order was blocked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the evening.
The top court, in an unsigned opinion from which the four liberal justices
dissented, reasoned that extending the date by which voters could mail
absentee ballots fundamentally alters the nature of the election.
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to reverse an order extending the
absentee ballot deadline for voting in the Wisconsin elections scheduled
for Tuesday, stepping into a back-and-forth between Democrats and
Republicans in the state over when voting would take place.
Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, signed an executive order suspending in-
person voting in the state earlier on Monday after trying and failing to
convince the GOP-dominated state legislature to postpone elections until
May. His order was blocked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the evening.
The Supreme Court, which was considering a case brought before Evers
issued his executive order, was not considering whether voting would take
place on Tuesday, but only whether to keep in place an order that extended
the deadline for absentee ballots to be postmarked.
In an unsigned order from which the courts four liberal justices
dissented, the court did away with the extension.
The top courts five Republican-appointees, none of whom attached their
name to the courts order, reasoned that extending the date by which
voters could mail absentee ballots fundamentally alters the nature of the
election.
Wisconsin has decided to proceed with the elections scheduled for
Tuesday, April 7. The wisdom of that decision is not the question before
the Court, the order reads. The question before the Court is a narrow,
technical question about the absentee ballot process.
The case is the first dispute over COVID-19 to reach the justices.
Democrats and voting rights groups had gone to court to push for an
extended deadline, warning that coronavirus fears could keep voters from
the polls. On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld a one-week extension
for absentee ballots.
Republicans asked the Supreme Court to halt that order, issued by the 7th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A last-minute change to a voter deadline carries an increased risk that
voters will not appreciate when votes actually must be cast, Patrick
Strawbridge, the attorney for the Republicans, warned in a filing with the
top court. Strawbridge wrote the Supreme Court should maintain the status
quo of state election laws.
In response, Democrats said that Republicans were ignoring the health
risks posed by coronavirus, which has sickened more than 2,000 in the
state, according to data from local health authorities.
The electoral status quo already has been upended ? not by any judicial
order, but by the COVID-19 pandemic and the voter confusion and electoral
chaos it is causing, wrote Marc Elias, an attorney for the Democrats, in
a brief submitted to the court.
Until very recently, Wisconsin voters reasonably expected they would be
able either to vote safely in person on election day or through a
reliable, well-functioning absentee ballot system, Elias wrote. Now they
cannot ? and not because of any court order, but because of the pandemic.
The order from the Supreme Court puts a heavy emphasis on the fact that
the date for the ballots to be postmarked not just received by elections
officials had been extended. That remedy went beyond what Democrats had
even sought, the court wrote.
By changing the election rules so close to the election date and by
affording relief that the plaintiffs themselves did not ask for in their
preliminary injunction motions, the District Court contravened this
Courts precedents and erred by ordering such relief, the Supreme Court
wrote.
This Court has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should
ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election, the
order reads.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the majoritys decision ill advised
in a dissent joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena
Kagan.
While I do not doubt the good faith of my colleagues, the Courts order,
I fear, will result in massive disenfranchisement, Ginsburg wrote. A
voter cannot deliver for postmarking a ballot she has not received. Yet
tens of thousands of voters who timely requested ballots are unlikely to
receive them by April 7, the Courts postmark deadline.
Wisconsin remains under a shelter-in-place order, signed by Evers, and
federal officials have urged Americans not to gather in groups of 10 or
more until the end of April.
A dozen states and Puerto Rico, a territory, have postponed elections
since the coronavirus pandemic erupted in the United States. The Supreme
Court itself has postponed arguments scheduled for its March and April
sessions because of health concerns related to the virus.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.
Senile loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi got "Trumped" on February
5, 2020. "President Trump, Not Guilty."