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underpants

(182,734 posts)
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 07:27 PM Oct 2020

*burp* Kavanaugh has to correct his opinion on Wisconsin ballot counting.

Kavanaugh Fixes Error in Election Opinion After Vermont Complaint

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh made a correction to a concurring opinion after Vermont officials pointed out that he mistakenly said the state had not changed its election rules.

Though not unheard-of, such revisions are rare, experts said, adding that Justice Kavanaugh’s change highlighted the court’s fast pace in handling recent challenges to voting rules.

In the opinion, which was issued on Monday and alarmed Democrats worried about mail ballots being counted, Justice Kavanaugh wrote that while some states had changed their rules around voting in response to the pandemic, others had not.

“States such as Vermont, by contrast, have decided not to make changes to their ordinary election rules, including to the election-day deadline for receipt of absentee ballots,” he wrote in his original concurring opinion, which was attached to the 5-to-3 ruling against the deadline extension in Wisconsin.

On Wednesday, two days after the ruling, he (Vermont’s secretary of state, Jim Condos) wrote to Scott S. Harris, the clerk of the court, and said Vermont had made two key changes this year: All active, registered voters had received a ballot and a prepaid envelope, and election officials were authorized to start processing the ballots in the 30 days leading up to Election Day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-vermont.html

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*burp* Kavanaugh has to correct his opinion on Wisconsin ballot counting. (Original Post) underpants Oct 2020 OP
Appreciate him changing things and voting for state changes in PA and NC. Hoyt Oct 2020 #1
Well, that's a surprise gratuitous Oct 2020 #2
... tanyev Oct 2020 #3
Love this........and that was the ONLY thing I took from his damn hearing..... a kennedy Oct 2020 #4
Even his opinions have hangovers nt torius Oct 2020 #5
Ha! Kitchari Oct 2020 #10
Love this...... a kennedy Oct 2020 #15
Pathetic malaise Oct 2020 #6
It was a statement of fact too underpants Oct 2020 #7
Shocking mediocrity malaise Oct 2020 #8
thank you Jim Condos!! handmade34 Oct 2020 #9
Kavanaugh's doin' beer bongs through the laundry chute dude! Blue Owl Oct 2020 #11
LOL underpants Oct 2020 #13
Does the Chief Justice have to approve opinions? BainsBane Oct 2020 #12
The Supreme Court is no place for OTJ training! NT GulfCoast66 Oct 2020 #14

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Well, that's a surprise
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 07:32 PM
Oct 2020

I figured Justice Boof would reject Vermont's reality and substitute his own for the sake of his opinion.

a kennedy

(29,642 posts)
4. Love this........and that was the ONLY thing I took from his damn hearing.....
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 07:39 PM
Oct 2020

AND IT’S THE ONLY THING I WILL EVER REMEMBER ABOUT HIM FOREVER. I hate this drunk.

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