The court has already ruled on many disputes arising from the 2020 election, and there will be more. Mr. Trump has said he is eager for Judge Barrett to be seated in time to hear postelection challenges. Under the court’s usual practices, new justices do not participate in cases if they were not present for the arguments. “There are pluses and there are minuses,” Justice Stephen G. Breyer, now the senior justice of the court’s liberal wing, said in remarks last month at George Washington University. “Everybody hears what everybody else is saying and what the answers are, and they pay close attention,” he said.

Source: New York Times October 04, 2020 18:55 UTC