Legal Opinion
Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 14, 2018No. 16–1435PublishedCited by 174 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
Under Minnesota law, voters may not wear a political badge, political button, or anything bearing political insignia inside a polling place on Election Day. The question presented is whether this ban violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
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Today, Americans going to their polling places on Election Day expect to wait in a line, briefly interact with an election official, enter a private voting booth, and cast an anonymous ballot. Little about this ritual would have been familiar to a voter in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. For one thing, voters typically deposited…
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