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SCOTUS still finding time to deliver horrible rulings.

Remember how Florida voters passed a state constitutional amendment to allow felons who had served their sentence to have their voting rights reinstated? And then how the Florida GOP slapped a poll tax on it by tossing on an additional requirement that they pay all fees as well? Well, an injunction had been in place to allow them to vote while the legality of the GOP poll tax matter was decided in the courts. The Appeals Court wiped out the injunction and they went to SCOTUS to ask to put it back in place and...

SCOTUS decided to go "Nah, put that poll tax back in place while we wait."

Sotomayor (joined by RBG and Kagan) called out SCOTUS's pattern of consistently siding with making voting more difficult and called out the hypocrisy that they had overruled federal court level decisions intended to make voting safer in the pandemic because it was "too close to the election" but here? Apparently no problem to just throw this wrench into Florida's election right now in her dissent.

Now, by the time the matter is decided it'll likely be too late for voters in Florida to register for the general.

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