Today's iteration of the Magical Neoconfederate Shadow Docket, restoring Alabama's arbitrary ban on curbside voting, produced a lengthy dissent from Sotomayor. (Significantly, it is joined by Kagan and Breyer, who generally avoid joining stay opinions they don't write.)

The District Court found that the ban on curbside voting, forcing people with disabilities that make them uniquely vulnerable to risk exposure to COVID if they want to vote, violated the American with Disabilities Act

11CA, although it's been flipped by Trump, LET THE DECISION STAND. (This is the same Court that has allowed Florida to essentially nullify an initiative supported by a large majority of the state's citizens enfranchising felons who have served their time. Think about that.)

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Some people should have to risk death to vote

The order in effect doesn't even require counties to accommodate disabled voters; it simply permits it.

Alabama's extremely cumbersome vote-by-mail system is plainly not in itself an adequate accommodation under the ADA:

There is simply to remotely defensible reason to grant this stay