The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Justice Brett Kavanaugh before delivering the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in 2019. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images If the United States had a nonpartisan judiciary, Watson v. Republican National Committee would have been laughed out of court months ago. The premise of the Republican Party’s lawsuit in Watson is that, beginning in 1845, Congress banned states from counting many absentee ballots — and somehow no one noticed this for the better part of two centuries. To understand Watson, it’s important to understand how Presid...

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