The political and legal skirmishing throughout Monday was only the first round of an expected national fight over voting rights in the year of Covid-19. It rattled democracy in a key battleground state already shaken by a fast-growing number of cases of the coronavirus. The governor had issued an executive order postponing in-person voting and extending to June the deadline for absentee ballots. But Republican leaders succeeded in getting the state’s top court to stay the decree. And in a decision late Monday capping the election-eve chaos, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative-leaning majority dealt its own blow to Wisconsin Democrats.

Source: New York Times April 07, 2020 00:01 UTC