The Supreme Court just hit Joe Biden with a big defeat on mail-in voting
2024 continues to be the year of the court challenge.
What judges decide will go a long way toward determining the winner of the election.
And the Supreme Court just hit Joe Biden with a big defeat on mail-in voting.
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Texas mail-in voting law
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by three Texas voters to a state law passed during the pandemic that allows voters over the age of 65 to request a mail-in ballot for any reason while limiting the use of mail-in-voting for everyone else.
Texas argued that mass no-excuse mail-in voting opened the door to fraud.
The left-wing activists argued the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18 forbids discrimination in voting on the basis of age.
“Whatever voting rights a state grants to people aged 65-and-over, it must also grant to people under 65,” the Texas voters argued.
But the Supreme Court rejected the appeal and left in place a lower court’s ruling upholding the Texas law.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals previously ruled that while the founders guaranteed a right to vote, there was no such right to vote by mail.
They wanted the court to overturn an appeals court’s ruling that Texas’ rules are allowed because making it easier for some people to vote doesn’t make it harder for others to do so.
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also said that the right to vote when the 26th Amendment was ratified did not include the right to vote by mail.
Mail-in-voting becomes controversial
Democrats changed election laws in key states to allow for a massive increase in mail-in ballots.
The Biden campaign swamped the swing states with mail-in-ballot and ballot harvesting programs that led to record turnout and him winning the election.
In the 2022 Midterm Elections, where Democrats overperformed expectations, one-third of all ballots were mail-in ballots.
Democrats hoped to put the Senate race in Texas in play.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) won re-election by just three points in 2018 and Democrats recruited Representative Colin Allred (D-TX) – a former NFL player – to challenge him.
The Supreme Court stepping in to leave the Texas law in place is a blow to Democrat hopes of winning that seat.
Trump encourages mail-in-voting
Republicans have realized that they need to beat Democrats at their own game.
Early voting and mail-in voting aren’t going anywhere in blue states.
Neither are ballot harvesting programs.
Republicans counting on Election Day voting means Democrats can run up the score with mail-in and early voting to build a nearly insurmountable lead for the Left.
That’s why Trump encouraged his supporters to vote early and by mail.
“ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS. REPUBLICANS MUST MAKE A PLAN, REGISTER, AND VOTE!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
