Yes, horrible decision. Made by partisan GOP justices. It had to be. But what the justices are assuming, perhaps falsely, is that all of those votes held up are Democratic votes. They simply aren't. The MN election won't be decided by a few hundred votes. (If there's a Republican advantage in the held-up votes, those votes will likely be a small percentage of the state-wide tally and, if it's a GOP majority in the held up votes, it won't be enough to flip the election.) The Dems have a better grip on the majority. Besides, this latest ruling will bring out MORE Democrats on election day. Call it the Wisconsin effect: when voters believe that they're being given a raw deal by the right wing, they'll react with defiance and they'll become more determined than ever to vote.
My guess is that the state will issue an emergency appeal for a stay. They will argue that the appeals court decision was made in bad faith since MN voters were already voting under a specific set of conditions that, in mid stream, the appeals court denied. The state should argue that the time for making sound and prudent decisions should occur after the election and not before.
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