The Supreme Court Warned Against Changing Voting Rules Near Election Day, And Then Did It Anyway buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
In a brief order with no dissents, SCOTUS last night revived a South Carolina's rule that absentee voters have a witness when they sign their ballots. But voting is already underway in SC, so the justices were in the odd spot of having to address that buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
SCOTUS revived South Carolina's witness rule for mail-in ballots, but allowed a two-day grace period for ballots already in the mail (see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…). NJ, which is defending its longer timelines for ballots against a Trump lawsuit, argues SCOTUS helped their case
The Trump campaign is challenging NJ's COVID-related voting changes, which include allowing ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they're received by Nov. 10, and allows ballots without a postmark to be counted if received within 48 hours of Election Day

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30 Sep
On the SCOTUS segment during tonight's debate:
- We didn't learn much we didn't already know about where Trump and Biden stand on filling RBG's seat. Trump made clear they'll push Barrett's nomination through during the lame duck session if they can't get her confirmed by Nov. 3
- Trump asked how Biden could know Judge Barrett's views on Roe v. Wade. Setting aside what we know about Barrett's views on abortion and how she's voted on the bench, Trump has explicitly said he will pick justices who will reverse Roe so...that's one way Biden could know
- Biden declines to engage on whether he'd support court packing (he's prev. said he doesn't support it), pivots instead on making a pitch to people to vote.

But court packing will now go down in history as the issue that prompted Biden to say to Trump, "Will you shut up man"
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29 Sep
Hello from my dining table, where I'll be listening remotely to arguments set to start at 11am on DOJ's motion to dismiss the prosecution against Michael Flynn. For a refresher on the months-long legal fight over whether this hearing should happen at all: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The judge will do the hearing via video conferencing, but the public/press can only call in to listen to the audio. If you'd like to dial in, the court has made multiple lines available to accommodate lots of callers! (There were already 300+ people on the line when I dialed in.)
The lawyers had been chatting amongst themselves for a while but it's now gotten a lot quieter after someone noted that everyone who had called in could hear them
Read 38 tweets
29 Sep
Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign official and Manafort right-hand man who pleaded guilty in the Mueller probe, had a virtual reentry hearing this a.m. about how he's doing on probation — he's in compliance and doing his community service hours with the American Red Cross
It was a very short hearing, lasting about 10 minutes. Gates said that he's doing his community services hours by working with a servicemember assistance program through the Red Cross, which he can do remotely from home during the pandemic
Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that he's making progress paying off his fine and back taxes, and re: his ability to earn money, noted that he has a new book out. He joked that if she bought a copy it'd help.

To which Jackson replied: "I don't think I'm buying any of these books."
Read 4 tweets
28 Sep
New tonight: A federal judge in Ohio rejected a challenge to the state's process for handling mail-in ballots with signature mismatch problems, finding the state's interest in preventing fraud outweighs the "moderate burden" on voters assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7218…
Re: preventing fraud as a reason for Ohio's signature match rules, the judge notes the challengers and intervenors (Trump campaign + RNC) presented "drastically different research." Ohio, meanwhile, said fraud wasn't common in the state but argued they should be able to proactive
In other news re: mail-in voting: A DC federal judge granted an injunction blocking the US Postal Service from carrying out policies blamed for delays in mail this summer, specifically with an eye to how ballots will be handled leading up to the election ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…
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26 Sep
We'll be covering Trump's announcement in just a few minutes of his nominee to fill the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court. Stay tuned.
Trump's announcements of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh as SCOTUS nominees were both done from inside the White House. The last Rose Garden SCOTUS reveal was when Obama announced Judge Merrick Garland's nomination.
NOW: Trump will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, launching what is likely to be a bitter confirmation fight focused on the future of abortion rights and the attempt to seat Barrett so near the election
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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24 Sep
New: SDNY judge dismissed Karen McDougal's slander case against Fox over Tucker Carlson accusing her of "extortion" re: the hush money she received via Michael Cohen. Judge said Carlson engaged in nonactionable "rhetorical hyperbole and opinion commentary" assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7216…
Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil wrote that the "general tenor of [Carlson's] show should then inform a viewer that he is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.'"
Judge: "Whether the Court frames Mr. Carlson’s statements as 'exaggeration,' 'non-literal commentary,' or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same — the statements are not actionable."
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