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Jul 1, 2021 • 45 tweets • 9 min read
As I predicted, the Supreme Court upheld Arizona's requirement that, for counties that use a "precinct based" model for voting, voters must cast their ballots in their correct precinct to be counted. It also upheld Arizona's ban on ballot collection/harvesting. #BrnovichvDNC
The second sentence of the opinion: "Arizona law generally makes it very easy to vote."
Jul 1, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The final two SCOTUS decisions, due in approximately 20 minutes, will be HUGE for elections and election law. I was going to write an explainer of what's at stake, but @rickhasen already wrote a tremendous one.
I worked on the case now known as Brnovich v. DNC while I was at the Arizona Attorney General's Office. I was on the trial team (we won); then on the appellate team, where we initially won two times before the full 9th Circuit, "sitting en banc," reversed.