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The US supreme court issued a fragile win for voting rights – the real test comes later | Claire Finkelstein

theguardian.com · 7h · first reportShare

The court’s decision was based entirely on the timing of proposed new mail-in ballot rules. The larger question could re-emerge Last week’s supreme court decision upholding the district court’s restraining order on USPS’s mail-in ballot restrictions is being hailed as a victory for electoral integrity by politicians, political commentators and voting rights advocates alike. The senator Chuck Schumer, for example, called the decision “one of the most important cases to protect voting rights before the supreme court”. But the unsigned, three-sentence opinion, with only a brief concurrence and a lengthy dissent , is no such thing. The court based its brief opinion entirely on the timing of the roll-out of the new rules , which became effective on 21 August, just weeks away from the midterm elections and only days before several states were scheduled to begin mailing out their ballots. California’s submission to the court , joined by twenty-two states and the district of Columbia, asking t