The Supreme Court blocked a lower court order allowing voters in Alabama to cast their ballots curbside at polling places.The Supreme Court blocked a lower court order allowing voters in Alabama to cast their ballots curbside at polling places.The Supreme Court has sided with Alabama state officials who banned curbside voting intended to accommodate individuals with disabilities and those at risk from the COVID-19 virus.
Several at-risk voters challenged the ban at the beginning of May. After a three-day trial, a federal district court ruled that the ban on curbside voting violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, and that a policy allowing but not requiring counties to implement curbside voting was a reasonable accommodation under the law.
Dissenting from the high court's action were Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
Of course, they don't represent us or care about us! SCOTUS AmyConeyBarrett Republicans MAGA MAGATS
KatieSuttonCMU NPR is FakeNews
flies detect a stench, swarm SCOTUS
WTF
Doesn't the Supreme Court have to justify their decision? It's pretty standard to to write up an opinion. So why did the conservatives not do that? Hiding something? Can't justify it? How many have had unexplained debt pay offs? VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
Travesty
WTH
...and do it begins.
Kavanaugh for one. That is the fault of LindseyGrahamSC
Good. It’s not ok to pull up, vote, then hand it back to the poll worker & drive off. Whether disabled or elderly, we go to the doctor, the beach, shopping, restaurants, movies, etc. And those that can’t already voted absentee. We aren’t helpless or stupid.
Just goes to show that the GOP doesn’t care about people with disabilities. Or people in general.
You would need a flamethrower to get rid of all the rats in the Supreme Court now.
VOTE BLUE!!!!
Not needed. We have a great absentee ballot system in place.
You do realize SCOTUS doesn’t make these laws, they only render a decision as to whether or not they are CONSTITUTIONAL? I mean, don’t we want our laws to be CONSTITUTIONAL? Don’t we want our statutes to stand up to challenges? NPR just wants to whip you into a frenzy of bias.
Predictable and depressing. And it'll get worse with Coney. PACK THE COURT!
Wtf man
What is their reasoning for this I wonder? 🤔
Only GOP Republicans continue to work on VoterSuppression and preventing Americans from vote VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica
Surprise
Why do They hate people with disabilities?
It’s a true cracker / garbage red state
Sifill_LDF When you live in a democracy, there is no legitimate reason to make voting harder for people... And during a pandemic no less. There is only one motive - Deny the vote to people.
mattzollerseitz Christ, what assholes.
Fuk this
The question is why would Alabama Republicans be so evil not to help their own citizens vote safely?
Right-wing cruelty.
Preview of things to come. Very disturbing...
Pack the courts JoeBiden
So you can drive in at mcdonalds but not to vote.. Makes sense.. Not
Why?
Are we great yet? The worst part is they have exactly zero shame about their behavior. I can’t wait to see the back of that 🍊🤡 and his circus.
We do it in Ohio. Why can’t they?
Why do they hate people with disabilities? I pulled up to our county election board, waved my ballot envelope in the window of the car, and the poll worker gladly came to the car, inspected my envelope, gave me a pass and carried it to the depository. All in backward Missouri
Scotus can someone tell the Supreme Court we are having a double pandemic - Covid 19 and Trumpism.
Sifill_LDF 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
When I was in prison I listened to npr daily, because I thought they were an unbiased news source. Now I'm out, have more resources at my disposal, and have repeatedly witnessed NPR Mischaracterizing events with a left wing slant, and in some instances flat out lieing.. shame!
It's pretty obvious JusticeJohnRoberts doesn't like it when people vote. UnpackSCOTUS
Isn’t this what absentee ballots are for?
Voter suppression supported by SCOTUS.
Ever get the feeling that there is no basis in law for these rulings but rather they are politically based decisions?
Some Country we have
Republicans suck
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Evil
Sifill_LDF You had me at Alabama.
Sifill_LDF IMO this decision is definitive proof that SCOTUS has become too diseased with political agendas to function as a trusted guardian of our constitution.
Alabama is pretty red right? Too bad For Rs in general I guess
Unbelievable, this is voter suppression at its worst 😡
Ugh
jenralgeorge I have a serious albeit possibility stupid - Who has oversight of SCOTUS? There must be somebody in our system of checks and balances.
Sifill_LDF Republicans are now the Party of Cruel. Again and again.
They want Doug Jones to lose to a con artist and grifter.
Shameful. Ableist. Voter suppression. Just completely anti-democracy.
Supreme Court rules on states election rules during the election? Why do GOP dominated states want to make it hard for old and disabled to vote? Civil rights only if you vote GOP?
A vote for Trump or any Republican is like a vote against America and democracy? Over 218,000 Americans dead in just 8 months and growing ? Anti-American policies are killing people and economy and they don't care?
Judicial activism in play. Where exactly is this in the Constitution? This is how an illegitimate court operates.
Sifill_LDF Why do they hate democracy?
Curbside voting is humane. These people are exercising their right. Make it easier for them. Imagine life right now without drive-thrus.
It figures!! Anything to suppress the vote! I am disabled and I have a heart disease and respiratory disease and would not be able to stand in line! So the supreme Court is telling me I can't vote?!?! Haven't any of them read the Constitution You're pathetic trump!
Get LOUD, Alabama!!!
Illegitimate SCOTUS. The fix is in.
Sifill_LDF The Republican Party is now a death cult.
Sifill_LDF the conservatives on the supreme court are slowly using “originalism” to take us back decades, or even centuries, to where voting rights were non existent. they’ll use originalism to justify only allowing white male landowners to vote, just like at our founding
Wow. Shameful.
Sifill_LDF 2020's writers are a little on the nose for my taste
Sifill_LDF Jesus wept.
Alabama-this is disgusting and you should be ashamed John Merrill.
stevesilberman Gop voter suppression.
GOP been waiting for this day. They’ll be ok seeing trump go they got what they’ve been dreaming of a flipped court. They can’t win fair elections they can’t do anything in congress so they stacked the courts. They blocked Obama and now the courts will give them what they want
Gee, I wonder who sued to block this?
SO WHAT WAS THE MAJORITY REASONING?!!!!!!!
I sure hope SpeakerPelosi and SenSchumer have a plan to impeach Barr and stop Barrett’s nomination.
Why wouldn’t we want every American to vote? This is going to get more and more insane. This is anti-democracy.
Ffs 🤦♀️
This is reprehensible. Pack the Court, the sooner the better.
Hmm. In Iowa, due to Covid, all early voting is curbside. I wonder if this affects that?
This is what we're up against ... a stacked Republican court system. We need to reform it. It needs to happen now. SenSchumer TheDemocrats JoeBiden KamalaHarris
Supreme Court: Because people with disabilities and at risk for Covid should stand in long lines for hours like the rest of America. 🙄
Why? How does retired Kennedy vote?
Supreme Court: Sorry we don’t accommodate people with known disabilities 🙄
Yeah, but let's clutch our pearls at the thought of Dems 'packing the court.'
Alabama is stupid.
The Supreme Court is illegitimate and doesn’t represent people’s will at all. It represents the wills of the billionaires that paid for those seats.
For those proud of what they accomplished today in Alabama, all you need to do is read the title of this article and realize the insult to your disabled brothers and sisters. You won a legal argument and lost a moral test. What a shame to your state.
Of course they did. 🖕
The ADA was an underappreciated, world-leading humanitarian achievement, but the GOP is so terrified of the American public they're killing it.
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Another disgusting SCOTUS ruling to help states overturn all legislation that advances a modern society. The Roberts’ court is determined to help the GOP resume draconian 1930s racist, sexist, religious & every other discriminatory practice from those bad old days. Bye progress!
ACLU ACLUAlabama
SCOTUS is corrupt. That they, yet again, didn't even have or offer justification for deciding against the people's right to safely vote in this election shows they no longer back the bill of rights or care about justice
Seems right-wing members of SCOTUS have subconsciously assimilated the principle of the 1857 Taney court that black ppl aren't Constitutionally defined citizens & therefore cannot receive rights & privileges therefrom. This emerges only in situations that might benefit black ppl.
Wat
Best Supreme Court that Koch money could buy!
Well done 👍🏻
States like Alabama will do anything and everything to suppress the vote. It's 2020. How has our society not made more accommodations and modifications to help evolve the election process, especially during a pandemic?
The conservative Supreme Court Justices are just partisan hacks intent on doing the GOP’s bidding.
Voter suppression! I knew that was the tactic in Alabama but didn’t ever expect the Supreme Court would endorse it. Shameful!
Why wouldn’t Alabama do this? It’s Alabackwardbama.
Every republic has an imperial phase, and then it's eventually dismantled--strap in, here we go
WTF! That is just evil. The justices didn't even meet in person because of this pandemic, and still they are more than willing to endanger the lives of voters.
Pathetic 🙄
A win for the white Republicans of Alabama, he means. They're the only ones who count.
This court is without any moral authority. Marbury v. Madison in a Biden administration should be dead in the water.
The conservative/GOP Supreme Court doesn't want disabled people to vote. Anyone not a straight, white, able-bodied male is at risk from this steamroller of prejudice and bigotry.
Pretty disgusting.
The SCOTUS is obsolete as is. It needs to be dismantled and started over so it serves the people and not corporate interests.
Republicans sure do hate democracy
Yet again the far right conservatives on SCOTUS have chosen to exercise voter suppression, ignoring the historic Americans With Disabilities Act. Alabama voters can no longer vote using curbside voter drop boxes. No explanation, very political. Shameful and very sad. vote
Imagine being the attorney that said, 'Accessible voting? Not on my watch!'
what reason could they POSSIBLY have
glad to see the supreme court is participating in voter suppression....... 😐
The result of some 'very good Christians' and their reasoning. I suppose Originalists wouldn't have bothered to let the disabled vote in the first place unless it was mentioned by Publius in the FederalistPapers 1/
👆🏼VoterSuppression
GOPCorruptionOverCountry because they can’t win unless they cheat!
Answer is so easy. The founders liked voters that weren’t caught by a disability or affected by something that we could all mock. Voters need to be what the constitution said white male landowners! These people drive. So many reasons to re-elect Orange male landowner!
SCOTUS is evil.
SCOTUS is quickly reaching a point where its rulings lack legitimacy....
Trump's America ... continuing to screw the disabled and vulnerable.
Shameful
WTF
Heartbreaking! Maybe if we had requirements to ensure diversity in these lifetime appointees, decisions would be less susceptible to 'group think' pitfalls that retard the progress of our society.
Gross. How do they even sleep at night? Dems need to take the Senate and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to deter voter suppression. If the judicial branch won’t protect our rights, the legislative and executive must step in. Hoping for that BlueWave2020. VoteEarly
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And yet another fix is in.
Why tho
Voter suppression.
This means Harris County (Houston) is going to have their curbside voting cut off when TX challenges it. Next will be attempt to get ballots submitted curbside tossed. That’s why the AL SOS mentioned voting integrity as a reason to shut it down. Playbook becoming clearer.
wtf could the reasoning for this decision be? None is right. Disgusting.
Republican 😂
Very sad that the SCOTUS even heard the case and even sadder they knocked it down
And yet conservatives will accuse others of threatening free speech.
How do we live in 2020 and not have mail in voting nationwide?
Despicable. Sadly, the worst of this Supreme Court is still to come.
Fuck 5
Voter suppression.
We need change so bad.
It’s becoming embarrassing to be an American.
I imagine without exploring the decision this one was the result of some 'very good Christians' and their reasoning. I suppose Originalists wouldn't have bothered to let the disabled vote in the first place unless it was mentioned by Publius in the FederalistPapers
They corrupted our courts, are you mad! Vote!!!🤬🤬🖕🏻GOP
how is this possible?
Why would anyone interested in democracy want to make it more difficult for any citizen to vote? I can’t understand it.
I’m really curious as to why the court doesn’t give an explanation. Don’t we deserve to know why they made the decision they did? “The high court issued its order Wednesday night, without explanation, over the dissent of the court's three liberal justices.”
lol and so it begins.... and Emy isn't even on the court yet
Voter suppression, republican style. Amy's gonna feel right at home on this court. SCOTUS
This is horrible but nothing compared to what's coming. How does a minority group stay in power? Having a court cripple the ability of the majority to vote. The GOP's goal is a US version of apartheid.
We’re letting the judiciary erode our democracy into an apartheid model.
why? so insane. people just want to vote safely. what assholes.
SCOTUSblog The Supreme Court will soon lose all legitimacy if it has not already
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WTF?
AlabamaMan
To quote the president, 'SAD!'
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE who wouldn't allow disabled folks to vote from car DURING A PANDEMIC
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