Not all Supreme Court rulings will be good, especially with this court. They already ruled to deport asylum seekers, and now they ruled against hearing the vote-by-mail case. Ignorant people are claiming that the Texas Democrats jumped the gun by trying to skip the 5th circuit. But we have primary elections in July, and it's kind of an emergency to get a definitive ruling NOW before we have a disastrous election as seen in other states.
I mean, the hospitals here are so overwhelmed with cases that Gov. Abbott finally decided to reimpose some restrictions, by closing bars and making restaurants go back to 50% capacity. If it's that bad, then why the fuck can't we vote by mail in July to prevent more infections? But I was always pessimistic, and it's probably too late anyway now to print up enough mail-in ballots for the primary. We just have to hope that the 5th Circuit doesn't slow-walk this case so that we don't have time to prepare for the November election.
This is all Abbott's fault for reopening in May instead of waiting until June, and then, continuing to reopen wider despite the huge spike in cases every single day. (He had claimed that with each phase, he would stop to evaluate the situation, but no, he never did pause until after it became a severe crisis.) It seems only after Trump threatened to pull federal funding for testing, that the governor and our motherfucker senators realized that "Hey, we need to do something!" "Maybe I should encourage people to wear masks. Maybe I should let the local cities and counties do stricter stay-at-home rules, instead of propping up Trump's shit narrative?"
So because of that, we have to reverse the reopening I guess. I wonder what July 4th is going to be like? I'm working that day so I won't be out and about. I wonder if the rightwing loonies are going to be out partying in defiance of new restrictions? What's it gonna take for Abbott and Paxton to voluntarily let us do vote-by-mail? A fucking disastrous July primary? Ugh.
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