The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state constitutions can protect voting rights in federal elections and state courts can enforce those provisions, in a key opinion that should safeguard the integrity of the 2024 election.

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    1 year ago

    yeah that was my take away too from a very quick scan. I honestly couldn’t be bothered to read the entire dissent because I couldn’t imagine WTF Thomas needed that many pages to say the court didn’t need to even decide the case. He started off with a bunch of “we don’t ‘advise’” themes and then I just lost interest. I’m hoping SCOTUS blog does a decent summary of the decent. If it seems interesting enough maybe I’ll take the time to read the full text.

    But based on his theme my answer would be, “yeah maybe. But you know what else the SCOTUS should do, take cases and issue decisions when it’s obvious ‘this shit ain’t dead’ and maybe, just maybe, you all should put a nail in the coffin of stupid ideas to remove all ambiguity”