nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201101-115458-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201101s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201101-115458-0 doi eng 342 23 Mathews, Jud Author aut The U.S. Supreme Court and the 2020 Election Mathews, Jud Verfassungsblog 2020-11-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier As Election Day looms, Americans are heading to the polls, and they are also heading to the courts. In the past two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued rulings in five challenges to election-related practices in different states, and there are surely more to come. The litigation has exposed disagreements on the high court, and on lower courts as well, about where responsibility lies for ensuring elections play out fairly and in accordance with law. Of all of the opinions flying around, the one to get the most attention is perhaps a concurrence from Justice Kavanaugh that invokes Bush v. Gore, in which the Court stopped a recount in Florida and thereby decided the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Election law federalism US Supreme Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-u-s-supreme-court-and-the-2020-election/ raw object