The Supreme Court has not met in person since March because of the pandemic. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit put most of the judge’s order on hold but not the provision on curbside voting. “Secretary Merrill has concluded that offering curbside voting would not comport with state law,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) said in a petition to the Supreme Court. “The injunction does not require applicants to provide curbside voting; it merely lifts a legally unfounded, unilaterally imposed prohibition, and thereby allows those counties that are able and willing to provide curbside voting to do so.”Some of the counties surrounding the state’s largest jurisdictions provided curbside voting in 2016 and 2018 “without any evidence of voter confusion,” the groups said. In previous cases, the Supreme Court has been resistant to federal judges intervening in election decisions to compensate for the dangers and complications brought on by the pandemic.

Source: Washington Post October 22, 2020 01:20 UTC