Supreme Court docket heats up with election disputes

The Supreme Court is increasingly being pulled into the upcoming presidential contest. 

With a week to go until Election Day, the justices this week are dealing with four election-related applications on their emergency docket. 

On Tuesday, the court denied two requests from former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be taken off the ballot in the key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin.

Still pending is the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) challenge to who can cast provisional ballots in Pennsylvania, with potentially thousands of votes hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, Republican officials in Virginia are asking to remove more than 1,600 people from the voter rolls over accusations they are noncitizens. 

The disputes are just some of the dozens of legal battles playing out in courts across the country surrounding this year’s presidential contest. Some of those cases, as well as new ones filed after Election Day, could ultimately reach the Supreme Court.