And if Trump’s repeated allegations, without proof, of problems with the flood of mail-in ballots are any indication, some legal challenge to the results of the presidential election could arrive at the nation’s top court in the weeks after that.
There aren’t a ton of major blockbuster cases on the docket at this point, however. Irv Gornstein, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law, said that at first glance, this term might seem like it will be quieter and more predictable than the last one that ended in July.
That last term was by far the most consequential in recent memory when considering the sheer number of blockbuster cases and “more cases with surprise endings than any term I can remember,” Gornstein said.
“But lurking in the background is the possibility that this could become the most tumultuous and divisive term since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore 20 years ago, and effectively determined who would be president of the United States,” Gornstein said.
Election-related challenges could start pouring on to the Supreme Court’s docket from across the country, where lower courts grapple with how to extend deadlines or count votes amid an unusually large number of mail-in ballots because of the potential health risks of voting in person during a pandemic.
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