As the U.S. Supreme Court’s newest member, Justice Amy Coney Barrett immediately became enmeshed in a controversy that the high court, for its own sake and that of the country, must decide this week.
In an indefensible act of partisan muscle-flexing and judicial usurpation of legislative power, Pennsylvania’s Democratic-controlled state Supreme Court overturned a perfectly valid statute, enacted by the state General Assembly, that required all mail-in and absentee ballots to be delivered to the appropriate county board of elections no later than 8 p.m. on Election Day. Unlike the federal judiciary, which is insulated from electoral politics, Pennsylvania judges are elected. As is the custom of partisans driven by politics, as opposed to detached magistrates guided by law, the Democratic majority ruled 4-3 to modify the statute for purposes of the upcoming election.
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