The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push for California to set aside thousands of mail ballots from people President Trump’s administration claims are noncitizens, a decision that comes on the eve of the pivotal midterm elections.
The high court refused to intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the largely Democratic state’s voter rolls.
It was the latest in a flurry of election-related litigation the day before the midterm elections, which will decide control of Congress for the last two years of Trump’s second term.
That was quick.
Only took an hour or two for the ‘no’ to come down. It’s nice to see SCOTUS function at a basic level for once.
A fortunate save, but one we shouldnt rely on. Who knows how the supreme court will act for other ballots in other states.
‘Shouldn’t’, is true.
But the judiciary has been the only check on Donald thus far, so unfortunately, it’s all we’ve got.
Are they finally learning the lessons of mouse v cookie?
Doesn’t matter. Trump wanted SCOTUS to do this. It’s all just a set up so Trump and his supporters can start squealing tomorrow that Cali allowed thousands of non-citizens to vote. It’s just one more way they will pretend that the election was rigged.
Facts don’t matter to MAGAts. They’ll fall for it even though there is no evidence to support anyone on this list being a non-citizen voter.
This very much does matter, because the judiciary has been the only meaningful check on Donald’s dictatorial rule by fiat, and SCOTUS has, mostly, been amenable to it too.
More than anything, though, that they rushed this ‘no’ out prior to Election Day spares us all a lot of controversy and chaos, and that works in the favor of the electorate.
Yes MAGA will bitch about it. That’s okay. They are vastly outnumbered now.
I wish it would say if any judges want it to.
Another article mentioned no dissenting opinions.
surprising. I guess we need elections every 6 months to have scotus do its job well.
Well good.
Still, it doesn’t look good. Roughly half of all voters still have shit for brains.
