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Also known as, governors can& #39;t just unilaterally change the election laws by fiat, allow ppl to vote after the election& #39;s over, & censor news about the election results--all w/out statutory authority. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19a1016_o759.pdf">https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/... https://twitter.com/davidlnoll/status/1247305355400527872">https://twitter.com/davidlnol...
The "majestic generalities" in question being the democratic process, the freedom of speech, the equal protection of the laws, and constitutionalism.
In this case a fedl court gave the plaintiffs something they didn& #39;t ask for: an order letting voters cast mail ballots after the election& #39;s over & forbidding speech abt the election results for days afterwards. Supreme Court says that& #39;s unconstitutional. If Wisconsin wants to
change its election laws, it can do so at the special session that& #39;ll convene shortly-which the S.Ct. doesn& #39;t interrupt.
Is it fair to characterize this as a big meanie heartless Supreme Court telling people to die in the streets?
Is it fair to characterize this as a big meanie heartless Supreme Court telling people to die in the streets?
Hey! Here& #39;s a GREAT idea! Let& #39;s just let governors change election laws by unilateral "emergency" decree! What could POSSIBLY go wrong with THAT?
Some states have election laws that provide for emergency changes. Here& #39;s a good article about that: https://law.emory.edu/elj/content/volume-67/issue-3/articles/election-emergencies-voting-natural-disasters-terrorist-attacks.html">https://law.emory.edu/elj/conte... Wisconsin doesn& #39;t have that. And WI legis. has explicitly declared that it& #39;s opposed to broadening mail-in voting. https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2003/statutes/statutes/6/IV/84">https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2003/stat...
Govn& #39;rs execute the law. They have broad emergency pwr. But there& #39;re limits & elections are a darn good place to draw the line.
Wisconsin, BTW, didn& #39;t suspend elections even during the 1918 Spanish Flu, which the Wis bd of health called "the most disastrous calamity that has ever been visited upon the people of Wisconsin." https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2479">https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/A...
