I’ll confess that I don’t fully understand exactly why Texas needed an administrative stay here; everyone agrees that the earliest deadline for the primaries (the candidate filing deadline) isn’t until December 8. Pausing the ruling *now* seems gratuitous—but also a sign about where this is headed.
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@stevevladeck.bsky.social an administrative stay is pretty normal in a case like this just to give the rest of the justices a chance to have a look at it.
In other words, it's not that Texas needed the administrative stay but that the Court needed the administrative stay.
