By a 5–3 vote, the Supreme Court BLOCKS a lower court order that had allowed Alabama counties to implement curbside voting. So curbside voting will remain banned.
Sotomayor dissents, joined by Kagan and Breyer. Ginsburg would’ve dissented, as well. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Sotomayor dissents, joined by Kagan and Breyer. Ginsburg would’ve dissented, as well. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Sotomayor’s dissent closes with the poignant story of Howard Porter, Jr., which is the kind of thing only Sotomayor would think to pluck out of the record and deploy in an opinion. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf… 
Just to be clear, the district court merely *allowed* Alabama counties to offer curbside voting. The court didn’t require anybody to do anything. It’s remarkable that the five conservatives (soon to be joined by a sixth) would reach out and slap down such a modest accommodation.
The Supreme Court’s use of the shadow docket to remake election law in America is a really bad look. There’s almost never an opinion for the court explaining the reasoning. We don’t always know how every justice votes. It‘s fly-by-night judging and it doesn’t inspire confidence.
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