The Supreme Court said early voting cutbacks in Ohio can go into effect on Monday, reversing an order by a federal judge to block the state’s restrictive voting law.
The Court’s decision came within one day of when Ohioans would have been able to head to the polls to cast their ballots in the 2014 midterm elections.
The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse the injunction — which was upheld by an appeals court last week — was divided 5-4 along ideological lines. The request was submitted to Justice Elena Kagan, who turned the matter to the full court.
The next step is for the lower courts to consider whether the Ohio law is valid on the merits.
Read the Court’s order, via SCOTUSblog.
How fucking obvious can a court be?
I thought Kennedy was supposed to be the “swing vote.” Is the swing stuck?
As obvious as they want to be until we stop them. Every election at every level is always important in order to get a fair-minded, competent judiciary at every level. At a minimum, Democrats must retain control of the Senate after November.
The conservatives on the Court have given up all pretense of being fair or disinterested.
And they wonder why Americans see them as highly partisan.
What a bunch of jackasses.
From SCOTUSblog:
Of course. But there’s more to the story here. In fact, Sahil has butchered this one quite badly. Also from SCOTUSblog:
In other words the court did not “reverse the injunction.” They’ve put it on hold temporarily. Granted, it has the practical effect of reversing the decision, since early voting was scheduled to start tomorrow.
Edit:
Here’s the SCOTUSblog link since TPM messed it up in the article.