On Voting Rights, GOP Lawyers Say the Quiet Part Out Loud

In light of the ongoing assault on the legitimacy and integrity of U.S. elections, the timing of Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Brnovich v. DNC is eerie. The consolidated case comes in the wake of the violence at the Capitol spurred by Donald Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election—and two days after the former president gave his first speech since leaving office, uttering falsehoods about American elections while his adoring audience chanted “You won!” It also comes as 43 state legislatures are considering 253 new voter suppression bills,...