[EL] Breaking: Supreme Court, on 5-4 Vote, Blocks Federal District Courts Rules Easing Voting in Alabama Primary in Light of COVID-19

[Paul Gronke]

Rick

I wish I were a peer reviewer, because as much as I respect your analysis, I think you are completely wrong here: 

In this extraordinary time of a pandemic, the Supreme Court chose to vote remotely for safety reasons while denying some Wisconsin voters a chance to do the same. Not only did the Court’s opinion show a nonchalance about the importance of voting rights in the most dire circumstances. It demonstrated that the Court majority could not build a bridge for a unanimous compromise opinion. The signal it sends is that there may well be have partisan warfare at the Court over election issues in the upcoming election, which is already shaping up to be one conducted under conditions of deep polarization and a pandemic

You are far too generous with your analogy.

 There is nothing at all “remote” about voting by mail / vote at home or curbside voting. The Court affords itself unprecedented health and safety protections while denying eligible voters access to methods that have been used safely and securely for decades.

Paul Gronke 
Reed College and the Early Voting Information Center 
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