The Role of the District Court in the Roberts Court Decision

The entire point of not intervening in elections in the last minute is according to Purcell itself to reduce voter confusion which risks like disenfranchising or discouraging turnout. Here reinstating a prior deadline on the literal eve of the election achieves the opposite ends. More confusing and makes it harder to vote making it less likely a lot of people. The actual rule here was confusing enough that although it's like a three-page decision by the Roberts Court we had to have like a 20-minute conversation before before the podcast started to get it straight.