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The ruling cuts at the heart of a key argument made by right-wing activists since the 2020 election, when Donald Trump sought to disrupt the certification process as part of his bid to subvert the results.
Good ruling and all, but I won’t keep my hopes up until I know SCOTUS hasn’t/can’t change it. I don’t for one second put it past them to say “actuallllllly they can if the results are bad for Trump.” but in more legal bullshit language.
It’s a state elections law, Supreme Court of Georgia is the ultimate authority on what it says. States have a lot of leeway to determine their own election laws, so it’s hard to mount a federal law challenge to them in the first place. The RNC voter suppression consent decree was a rare exception.
IANAL, but it’s hard to imagine an opposition to this where federal courts even have jurisdiction, much less a path to SCOTUS.
Thanks for the clarification! That’s definitely a bit of a relief.