“It is the fourth time that the court has refused to intervene to protect voting rights this year.
“The Supreme Court's failure to reinstate the status quo, said Sotomayor, "continues a trend of condoning disenfranchisement."
“‘Ironically,’ she wrote, the court majority has ‘wielded Purcell as a reason to forbid courts to make voting safer during a pandemic, overriding two federal courts because any safety related changes supposedly came too close to election day.’ And now, she concluded, ‘faced with an appellate court stay that disrupts a legal status quo and risks immense disenfranchisement — a situation that Purcell sought to avoid — the court balks.’"
Charlie Cooper
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