The ruling marked one of the few cases in which the justices did not divide along the court's usual 6-3 ideological lines.
In a blow to the integrity of U.S. elections, the Supreme Court upheld state laws permitting election officials to accept postmarked ballots after Election Day on Monday. The ruling was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the court’s liberal justices in the majority. The dispute in Watson v. RNC […]
Former Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on Monday called on Congress to reassert its authority as a coequal branch of government after the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump had the authority to fire her last year. The conservative majority ruled 6-3 in favor of the president, expanding presidential power over an independent agency within…
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count mail ballots that are cast by Election Day but arrive later, rejecting a GOP challenge to Mississippi law's for late-arriving ballots.
President Trump railed against Monday's Supreme Court ruling that allows states to keep counting ballots after Election Day and urged Congress to pass his voter ID legislation that would severely restrict mail-in ballots.
In a blow to the integrity of U.S. elections, the Supreme Court upheld state laws permitting election officials to accept postmarked ballots after Election Day on Monday. The ruling was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the court’s liberal justices in the majority. The dispute in Watson v. RNC […]
War Room host Steve Bannon and MAGA lawyer Mike Davis lost it on Monday as a Supreme Court ruling they say "totally screwed" them landed live on air.The 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee allows states to count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to 5 days later. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion."Election Day does not mean Election Day according to Justice Amy Coney Barrett," Davis reacted. "But it seems like Justice Barrett, our esteemed law professor — I've called her other names before — just totally screwed us on what Election Day means," he added."She screwed the country, really, because there is something called the Elections Clause under the Constitution, and state and local governments get to decide election rules unless Congress comes over the top with a federal statute on time, place, and manner of elections," Davis continued.The Elections Clause is the constitutional provision that gives states authority over how elections are conducted — unless Congress passes a federal law overriding those states' authority.Barrett was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices. Four conservatives dissented — Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh — though Davis reserved special scorn for Gorsuch, his former boss, as the one conservative he praised for not ruling against them."And if you look at Justice Samuel Alito's dissenting opinion today, it talks about how it was a burden for Civil War soldiers, for example, to cast their ballots for president and get them received by Election Day — but they managed to do it," Davis said."But Amy Coney Barrett, in her majority opinion, just brushes that aside and says the states didn't know better," he added."This is all about what they say on MS NOW: 'What a great win for democracy. This is about accessibility and access,'" Bannon ranted. "They essentially want enough time so they can steal it.""If you had to just show up on Election Day, they get smoked every time, Mike," he told Davis. "...what logic did she have to say it's not Election Day, but it's election month, with all the stealing and problems? And this is gonna cause massive problems in the midterms already.""It's just an asinine ruling," Davis griped, "of course, what you would expect out of a law professor, an esteemed law professor, instead of a rattled law professor with her head up her a— as I've called her before."Both men called on Senate Republicans to immediately pass the SAVE America Act — a bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and mandate photo ID at the polls, and which President Donald Trump has demanded be expanded to ban most mail-in ballots — before the November midterms.Davis told listeners to pick up the phones and "light up both of your home state senators right now."
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President Trump on Monday slammed the Supreme Court ruling allowing states to count mail-in ballots received after Election Day, arguing it is now even more important for Congress to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. The Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots sent by Election Day to be…