[EL] Supreme Court reinstated ban on curbside voting in Alabama: 20A67, Merrill v. People First

[Eric J Segall]

Pam, it is stunning, and partisan, all the way down.

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On Oct 21, 2020, at 8:48 PM, Pamela S Karlan <pkarlan at stanford.edu> wrote:

 5-3, with the expected lineup.  A dissent from Justice Sotomayor that ends with a truly heartbreaking quotation:  “ Plaintiff Howard Porter, Jr., a Black man in his seventies with asthma and Parkinson’s Disease, told the District Court: “ ‘[S]o many of my [ancestors] even died to vote. And while I don’t mind dying to vote, I think we’re past that – we’re past that time.’ ” Id., at *11.”

The total indifference of the Court to citizens’ ability to vote — while the Court does its business remotely — is stunning.

Pamela S. Karlan
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Co-Director, Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
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