A Republican lawyer suggested to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday that a Georgia state bill prohibiting early voting on Sundays was “lawful.”
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A Republican lawyer suggested to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday that a Georgia state bill prohibiting early voting on Sundays was “lawful.” The exchange came during arguments of a potentially landmark Supreme Court case. The Republican Party of Arizona is arguing for a pair of restrictive voting laws to be upheld after the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck them down last year, ruling that the laws violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Section 2 prohibits states from passing voting rights legislation that results in the discrimination of minority populations. Kagan posed a series of hypothetical questions to Michael Carvin, the GOP lawyer. One question appeared to mirror Georgia House Bill 531, which passed the state assembly’s lower chamber on Monday.
