The Supreme Court’s disturbing order to effectively disenfranchise thousands of Wisconsin voters
Posted on AllSides April 7th, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
American democracy is in deep trouble.
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority, in a case that is literally titled Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, handed down a decision that will effectively disenfranchise tens of thousands of Wisconsin voters. It did so at the urging of the GOP.
The case arises out of Wisconsin’s decision to hold its spring election during the coronavirus pandemic, even as nearly a dozen other states have chosen to postpone similar elections in order to protect the safety of voters. Democrats hoped to defend a...