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MOORE v. CIRCOSTA 

GORSUCH, J., dissenting 

  In the Fourth Circuit, Judges Wilkinson, Agee, and Nie-
meyer  thoughtfully  explained  the  Board’s  constitutional 
overreach and the broader problems with last-minute elec-
tion-law-writing-by-lawsuit.  As they observed, efforts like 
these not only offend the Elections Clause’s textual commit-
ment of responsibility for election lawmaking to state and 
federal legislators, they do damage to faith in the written 
Constitution as law, to the power of the people to oversee 
their own government, and to the authority of legislatures.  
Such last-minute changes by largely unaccountable bodies, 
too, invite confusion, risk altering election outcomes, and in 
the process threaten voter confidence in the results.  Wise 
v.  Circosta, ___  F. 3d ___, ___ (CA4 2020)  (en banc) (Wil-
kinson and Agee, joined by Niemeyer, JJ., dissenting).  Re-
spectfully, for all these reasons I would grant the applica-
tion to stay the Board’s action.