Wingnuts Supremely Pissed At Amy Coney Barrett For Not Helping Trump Rig Elections

[erronis]

https://www.wonkette.com/p/wingnuts-supremely-pissed-at-amy
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Rightwing nuts are very very mad at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, because she committed treason against Donald Trump's crusade to rig the midterm elections. Barrett wrote the majority opinion in Monday's 5-4 decision upholding state laws allowing a grace period for mail-in ballots that are delivered in the days after Election Day, as long as they're postmarked by Election Day. Barrett's opinion was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three sane women on the Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The case, Watson v. RNC, involved Mississippi's law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted as long as they arrive at elections offices within five business days of an election. The Republican National Committee, the Mississippi Republican Party, and some disgruntled individual weirdos who pretended they were harmed by counting legal ballots sued, claiming that federal laws setting the day of national elections also require all votes be received on Election Day to count. The rightwingers on the Fifth Circuit agreed in 2024, setting the stage for Monday's decision.

Barrett, in an astonishing win for precedent and common sense, noticed that the plain language of federal laws only defines Election Day as the day when voting happens, leaving the counting and certification of votes up to the states.

"The electorate's choice is made when voting is complete, not when ballots are received," Barrett wrote, adding, "Election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose."

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[Ilsa]

1. Thank you for posting, erronis. Made me smile. nt