Blackletter

The US Supreme court recently had a big decision when they removed a judge's order, saying that South Carolinians who are voting had to have a witness. A judge in South Carolina said that the state's rule that you had to have a witness before you could send your mail in ballot. The judge ruled that that couldn't stand and he stopped the state from implementing that change, and the Supreme Court stayed that judges order saying that ruling could stand. Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence that listed two reasons for this. One, he said that the constitution and trust the safety and health of people to the states, and that the judiciary should not second guess the states election rules during a COVID pandemic. And second, he said that the Supreme Court has, for many years, emphasized that federal courts ordinarily would not alter any election rules this close to an election. The Supreme court recently reinstated a similar law in Alabama, but refuse to reinstate a similar law in Rhode Island that required two witnesses.