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RT Leah Greenberg - The Supreme Court has started issuing decisions remotely in order to protect their own safety.
One of their first remote decisions was that Wisconsin voters will have to show up in person and risk their lives if they want their votes counted.
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The Supreme Court Has Chosen Reckless Partisanship (The Atlantic) “In this grim pandemic spring, as a worried nation has shut down, political leaders such as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and (belatedly) President Donald Trump have signaled that the government is still open. Letter carriers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists, health-care workers, and law-enforcement personnel are among the government employees risking their lives to make sure that essential functions do not collapse.
Conspicuously missing from this roll of honor is the Supreme Court of the United States, which, when social distancing and lockdowns spread across the nation, simply closed its doors, largely ceased operations, and disappeared. The Court has, as of last Friday, canceled two months’ worth of oral argument and provided no word on when, or how, it will take up its calendar again. “The Court will consider a range of scheduling options and other alternatives if arguments cannot be held in the Courtroom before the end of the Term,” the official website explains unhelpfully.”
Pressure mounts on Supreme Court to reconvene virtually, hear case over Trump's tax returns (The Washington Times) “Millions of Americans are working remotely — why can’t the Supreme Court?
According to a new poll, Americans want to see the court, which has been shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic, back at work — remotely if need be — hearing oral arguments, including for highly watched cases concerning President Trump’s financial records.
In the PSB Research poll, 72% of Americans said the justices should hear oral arguments virtually and 61% want those arguments livestreamed, according to the Fix the Court, an advocacy group pushing for greater judicial transparency that commissioned the survey.”
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