The high court’s conservative majority sees scant constitutional authority to weigh in on state elections
WASHINGTON—If the coronavirus is pitting nervous voters against state election officials, don’t expect the federal courts to solve their problem.
That is the message from a string of Supreme Court orders since April, which saw the conservative majority overturn lower court directives to extend balloting or take other measures to protect voters from infection.
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