On September 25, Ohio state officials asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the decision of the Sixth Circuit that reinstates early voting in the first week of October and also reinstates early voting on the Sunday and Monday before election day. On September 26, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan asked the NAACP to respond. The NAACP response is due on Saturday, July 27, at 5 p.m. The case is Husted v Ohio State Conference of the NAACP, 14A336.
Since when has the Supreme Court ever worked on a Saturday? I thought they were no more than Monday through Friday from 8 AM until 5 PM (actually we all know they aren’t working a full 40 hour week like most working people).
The SCOTUS robots have yet another chance to clean up the giant mess created by THEIR mystification of the Equal Protection Clause and the 1965 VRA —
i.e. virtually ALL election law stuff in the last 150 yers.
The US Supreme Court put out Bush v Gore on December 12, 2000, at 10 pm eastern time.
Thanks for the explanation, Richard. I guess it has to be for highly important matters when they assemble on a weekend. Or, are they allowed in these technological age to have a conference call and vote on a week end?
SCOTUS meets Mon 29 Sep 2014 to go over the zillion cases filed since June.
They do know how to do EMERGENCY stuff.
See World War II – July 1942 – Emergency session.
EMERGENCY case regarding nazis captured in civilian clothes.
Military commission trial of them as being SPIES — i.e. NOT in uniform – a major violation of the Law of WAR.
Result – trial upheld — some of the nazis got HUNG.