Welp. Amy Coney Barrett joined with the libs again.
The 5-4 ruling upholds the legitimacy of mail-in ballots received after the Election Day in states which allow for it, striking a blow to the GOP.
Here's NPR on the ruling which was delivered by Justice Barrett:
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after it.
The ruling is a loss for the Republican Party, which brought the case, ahead of this year's midterm elections.
Eighteen states and territories, including Mississippi, have such mail ballot grace periods. A dozen additional states have grace periods for ballots returning from overseas, like from military members.
The Justice whom the libs went insane opposing — dressing in Handmaid's Tale costumes — continues to deliver victories for the libs.
Here's part of Barrett's opinion:
The question before us is a narrow one about timing. Plaintiffs do not challenge the manner in which Mississippi carries out federal elections. They do not, for example, challenge the general practice of absentee voting. Nor do they challenge the use of the Postal Service or a common carrier to transmit ballots. Although the election-day statutes refer to a particular "day" for the election, plaintiffs do not contend that everything must occur on that day. For instance, they do not object to early voting or dispute that officials may count votes and certify a winner after election day. Finally, this is not a case about the Constitution. We do not consider the scope of Congress's authority to regulate federal elections. The sole question before us is whether counting ballots postmarked by election day, but received up to five days later, violates the federal election-day statutes.
Because the case was too narrow and didn't challenge all of the different forms of voting, like early voting, that aren't on "election day," Barrett and the libs ruled against the GOP.
Here's the Alito dissent joined by Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch:
In this case, we must apply this interpretation of the federal election-day statutes to a Mississippi law that requires state election officials to accept ballots that arrive up to five days after election day. The acceptance of these late-arriving ballots effectively postpones the date on which the electorate's choice is made, and federal law precludes that postponement.
For this reason, I would affirm the decision below, which held that the provision of Mississippi law requiring acceptance of late ballots violates federal law. Because the Court reverses that decision based on a flawed understanding of the election-day statutes, I respectfully dissent.
If you accept ballots AFTER election day then you are, in fact, extending the federal election day in contradiction to federal law.
This isn't hard to understand.
Unless you're in the majority of this SCOTUS, of course.
More from Alito:
Election day is a specified date, not a span of multiple days. The election-day statutes require that federal elections occur on that date. Under the challenged Mississippi law, however, the collection of ballots continues for five more days, and therefore the "election" is not held until the end of that period. Because federal law requires that the election occur on election day, it preempts Mississippi's statute ...
In sum, from this Nation's founding until the last few decades of the 20th century — a period that spans the enactment of all three election-day statutes — having an "election" on a particular day meant completing ballot collection on that day.
Election day ≠ election season. It's so simple.
Another blow to conservatives.
Once again, Barrett fails to come through.
Color me shocked.
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