Republican lawmakers will take vote-by-mail challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court. | Adobe Stock
Republican lawmakers will take vote-by-mail challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court. | Adobe Stock
North Carolina’s Republican Lawmakers said they are going to fight the absentee-by-mail voting by sending the lawsuit to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Carolina Public Press reported.
According to court records, the lawsuit began in a lower federal court that denied the lawsuit. National Republican groups immediately appealed the lower courts decision.
Rick Su, a law professor for the UNC-Chapel Hill, said the lawsuits are “a mess,” suggesting that neither party’s hands are clean.
“I think the basic legal question, in some ways, is whether … the State Board of Elections has the legal authority to essentially propose these rule changes … but that itself is as a state law question,” Su told the Carolina Public Press in October.
“I don’t know how this ends,” Su told the Carolina Public Press. “We’re going to get results for the election, but there is a deeper issue here about using federal courts to intervene in deciding what seems to be, you know, at the core of this is a state law question.”
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