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Dec 5, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
🧵: More from yesterday's opinion. Luzerne County was trying to escape liability for its unconstitutional failure to train election staff and provide sufficient paper ballots for voters to cast. In the opinion, the court made some important points. 1/9
Because of Luzerne's failure, "Plaintiffs were both initially outright denied the right to vote and told to come back later, did come back later, and were still faced with substantial burdens that further prevented them from voting." 2/9 lawyersdemocracyfund.org/wp-content/upl…
Jun 23, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Today's #SCOTUS decision in #Berger is a major victory for legislatures across the country seeking to intervene in litigation to defend their duly enacted laws, especially when the official charged with defending the law might not do so for political or ideological reasons. 🧵 1/
A brief background on the case: The #NorthCarolina legislature enacted a statute authorizing them to intervene in lawsuits to ensure its duly enacted laws are vigorously defended in court after the state AG refused to defend laws in the past. 2/
