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« on: October 10, 2020, 05:24:50 PM »

There's been a few court cases on these laws and all of them have actually held posting a photo of your ballot is protected by the First Amendment.

I'm sure SCOTUS would rule that with the only dissent being Alito because he basically hates the First Amendment and possibly Breyer because he's occasionally idiosyncratic on issues like this.
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« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2020, 01:01:52 PM »

They *should* rule that those band are unconstitutional, but who knows how Roberts and Gorsuch will happen to feel that day.
This isn't really an issue I'd expect a straight liberal/conservative split on. For example see Iancu v. Brunetti, another free speech case that had a very strange split. (Kagan wrote the decision, joined by Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, while Roberts, Sotomayor and Breyer dissented.)
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