Legislation and US elections
Legislation and US elections
Legislation and US elections
The US presidential election is on November 3. In the meantime, the politics of voting on various fronts has become quite frozen, one of which is the judiciary. The Judiciary Front is particularly concerned about the vacancy created by the death of popular and progressive Supreme Court Justice Ruth Beder Ginsberg, whose influence could play a key role in determining victory or defeat in the presidential election. President Trump has already nominated Federal Conservative Court of Justice judge Amy Clooney Barrett to run for office, a nomination that must be approved by the U.S. Senate. The approval is due to a majority of Republicans in the U.S. Senate, although the Democratic Party is strongly opposed to the appointment just weeks before the election.
There are already many legal battles going on that could affect the outcome of the upcoming elections. Legal battles are now taking place in the lower courts, which could escalate to the Supreme Court. Of the current eight judges on the Supreme Court, five are nominated by Republicans and three by Democrats. So if Trump's nominee, Amy Barrett, can be appointed to the current vacancy, if the dispute over the election results goes to the Supreme Court, the court's verdict is expected to be in her favor. In fact, the appointment has become so important that he is scrapping talks with Democrats on an urgent stimulus package to revive the troubled U.S. economy and prioritizing securing Barrett's appointment before November 3.
The main issue in the legal battle over the election is related to the people's right to vote. The Democratic Party favors the expansion of suffrage, which will ensure the suffrage of Africans, Americans and other blacks, most of whom are supporters of the Democratic Party. On the other hand, the Republican Party is determined to deprive minority voters of their right to vote for good reason.
Advance voting is an important means of expanding the right to vote. States in the United States have a responsibility to make decisions about decentralized voting. So there are many inconsistencies in the applicable voting laws in that country. This inconsistency is also widespread in the provision of advance voting.
Voters are allowed to vote in advance for various reasons, one of which is the absence of voters in the constituency during the election. If you want to vote in advance due to absence, voters have to send a request for ballot in advance. However, in many states, all voters are allowed to vote in advance by postal ballot. In these states, ballots are sent to voters before the election by the state government, which they fill out and return by post. In some states, they can also submit filled ballots in dropboxes at designated locations.
The appointment of judges is gaining importance for another reason. President Trump is already embroiled in controversy over the election. He is also inciting his supporters to violent behavior. Thirteen of his white extremist followers have recently been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a Democratic-elected governor of Michigan over Trump's provocation to "liberate" the state of Michigan. Alleging fraud and harassment of his supporters if he loses the vote, he can ask the legislatures of the six most competitive battlegrounds in which the Republican Party now nominates members of the Electoral College from among its supporters and give them the freedom to vote for president. Incidentally, the number of members of the Electoral College is determined on the basis of population for each state for the election of the President of the United States. The candidate who received the support of 270 members of the Electoral College was elected President. According to the prevailing rules, the candidate who gets the majority of the votes in the state will get the support of the members of all the electoral colleges designated for that state. However, a Supreme Court ruling empowers the legislatures of each state to relax this obligation. A report in Atlantic Magazine alleges that some Republican leaders were preparing to go to the Supreme Court in advance. If that happens, then the issue of victory or defeat in the election will have to be taken to the Supreme Court, which is why it has become urgent for Trump to hastily appoint Justice Ginsberg to the vacant post of his choice.
Dr. Badiul Alam Majumder, Citizen (Sujan) Secretary for Good Governance
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