The US Supreme Court’s calendar for the new term includes several issues with intensely political implications. The American by-election is underway, with early voting already starting in some states. Doubtless, the claims of a stolen election have already been prepared by lawyers, needing only the actual vote count to make a court filing possible.
The petitioners referred to a report published on April 15 by medical journal Lancet, which revealed that there was strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was spreading by airborne transmission.
The Supreme Court has listed a 14-year-old criminal case filed against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s election agent S.K. Supian for hearing on April 9.
The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a petition challenging the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Varanasi constituency in last year’s Lok Sabha elections.