On Friday, September 9, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in Johnson v Michigan State A. Philip Randolph Institute, 16A225. The Michigan legislature had removed the straight-ticket device at the beginning of 2016, and then months later a U.S. District Court in Michigan had ordered the state to retain the device anyway. The state appealed, and the Sixth Circuit had refused to disturb the injunction issued by the U.S. District Court.
No U.S. Supreme Court Justice issued any writing in the case, but Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas said they would have granted the state’s desire for relief. This outcome does not mean that the device is likely to survive in 2018. Thanks to Rick Hasen for this news.
Vote would be 6-2 as SCOTUS is down a justice.
Since no figures were released you can’t just assume it was 6-2.
It could have been 4-4 which would have still meant the lower court judgment remained in place and only Alito and Clarence wanted their position to be made public.
The Donkey communists will now proceed to attack all laws as being discriminatory — against STUPID Donkey communists.
SCOTUS will be busy forever with emergency appeals.
2 stories on the machinations —
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/09/high-court-hear-appeal-straight-ticket-voting/90116200/
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/09/09/supreme-court-michigan-straight-party-voting/89994972/
Gee – are Donkey communists trying to get PERMANENT control of the USA or what ???
The U.S. Supreme Court said the vote was 6-2.