“…the election-day statutes require the electorate’s choice to be made on election day. That occurs so long as election day is the deadline for individuals to vote—as it is in Mississippi. But the election-day statutes do not set a deadline for ballot receipt, so they do not prevent Mississippi from counting ballots postmarked before election day yet received afterward.”-Amy Coney Barrett
In a win for democracy and We the People, SCOTUS ruled that STATES, not the federal government under our current dictatorship, can count late arriving mail-in ballots that arrive after election day as long as they are postmarked beforehand. The ruling was 5-4 with Justices Roberts and Coney Barrett joining the sensible and rational members of the Court to reject a Republican National Committee challenge to a Mississippi law that allowed elections officials may count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day if they were postmarked beforehand. The ruling was a major blow to Trump and his KKKult who have claimed, without evidence, that mail-in ballots are ripe with fraud.
Of course, SCOTUS’ ruling could prompt Congress to pass Trump’s Save America Act but even if they did pass his voter suppression bill, it would not affect the mid-term elections.
Supreme Court rules Trump cannot fire Fed member Lisa Cook; grants him more power over other independent agencies
SCOTUS also ruled that Trump cannot fire Fed member Lisa Cook but in a separate case, they allowed him to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission. The court was divided differently in each case. In Cook, the vote was 5-4 with the court’s liberals joining the majority, while they dissented in Slaughter, which was 6-3 on ideological lines. Only Roberts and fellow conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh were in the majority in both cases.
