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This at a time when right-wing judges, in their positions due to a decades-long campaign by reactionaries to deny the court system as a means of obtaining justice, are arguing that anything done to assist voting in the midst of a pandemic which has not been explicitly authorized by a state legislature is against the US constitution and the Supreme Court seems inclined to agree.

This typically bizarre "originalist" construction relies on Article 1 Section 4 and Article 2, Section 1, which give state legislatures the power to conduct federal elections in their states. The argument is that because no other body is specifically mentioned, no other body or office has any authority to act with regard to voting - even, it would seem, a state election board, specifically created to oversee the conduct of elections.