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IMO, considering what Americans are going through right now with the crisis of the COVID-19 Pandemic, you would think that some consideration would be given to voters during this time. Also, I would love to see absentee voting taking place in every state for the general election in November. Guess that would never happen if the republicans get their way, they would prefer to suppress American voters in any way possible.
Ginsburg Blasts Conservative Justices Who Blocked Wisconsin’s Absentee Voting Extension | HuffPost
Ginsburg Blasts Conservative Justices Who Blocked Wisconsin’s Absentee Voting Extension
“Either they will have to brave the polls,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in her dissent, “or they will lose their right to vote.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg excoriated her conservative colleagues over their decision to deny Wisconsin Democrats’ request to extend the deadline for absentee voting in the state’s election on Tuesday, despite concerns over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
In a 5-4 vote on Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc refused to extend the absentee voting deadline by six days, saying instead all mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Tuesday and received by April 13.
Democrats had pleaded with the courts to give more leeway to voters as COVID-19 wreaks havoc around the nation, infecting more than 366,000 people and killing more than 10,000. The nation’s top public health officials have urged Americans to practice social distancing and to remain at home as much as possible, directives that run counter to entering a crowded polling place.
Ginsburg, who was joined in her dissent by the three other liberal Justices, said her conservative colleagues’ decision to see the election proceed as planned would effectively strip many Wisconsinites of their right to vote “through no fault of their own.”
Ginsburg Blasts Conservative Justices Who Blocked Wisconsin’s Absentee Voting Extension | HuffPost