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DEMOCRATIC NAT. COMMITTEE v. BOSTELMANN

Nos. 20-2835 & 20-2844.

976 F.3d 764 (2020)

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Marge BOSTELMANN, Secretary of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al., Defendants, and Wisconsin State Legislature, Republican National Committee, and Republican Party of Wisconsin, Intervening Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 29, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amanda Callais , John Devaney , Marc E. Elias , Attorneys, Perkins Coie LLP, Washington, DC, Charles G. Curtis, Jr. , Sopen B. Shah , Michelle Marie Umberger , Attorneys, Perkins Coie LLP, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Democratic National Committee, and Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

David P. Hollander , Attorney, Rathje Woodward LLC, Madison, WI, Jeffrey A. Mandell , Douglas Maynard Poland , Attorneys, Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Madison, WI, Jonathan Lee Sherman , Cecilia L. Aguilera , Michelle Kanter Cohen , Attorneys, Fair Elections Center, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee Sylvia Gear.

Joseph S. Goode , Mark Matthew Leitner, Esq. , Attorneys, Laffey, Leitner & Goode, LLC, Milwaukee, WI, Stacie H. Rosenzweig , Attorney, Halling & Cayo, S.C., Milwaukee, WI, Jay A. Urban , Attorney, Urban, Taylor & Lee, Milwaukee, WI, Rebecca L. Salawdeh , Attorney, Salawdeh Law Office, LLC, Wauwatosa, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee Chrystal Edwards.

Jeffrey A. Mandell , Douglas Maynard Poland , Attorneys, Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Madison, WI, Anton Metlitsky , Yaira Dubin , Leah Godesky , Attorneys, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY, Molly Lens , Attorney, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Easha Anand , Attorney, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, San Francisco, CA, Jonathan M. Manes, Attorney, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, Chicago, IL, Sara Chimene-Weiss , Attorney, Protect Democracy, Phoenix, AZ, Farbod Faraji , Rachel F. Homer , Cameron Oatman Kistler , Attorneys, Protect Democracy, Washington, DC, Rachel Goodman , Jason Zarrow , Attorneys, Protect Democracy, New York, NY, Laurence Michael Schwartztol , Attorney, Protect Democracy, Watertown, MA, for Plaintiff-Appellee Jill Swenson.

Dixon Gahnz , Daniel P. Bach , Daniel Spector Lenz , Terrence Polich, Esq. , Attorneys, Lawton & Cates SC, Madison, WI, for Defendants Marge Bostelmann, Julie M. Glancey , Dean Knudson , Mark L. Thomsen , and Robert Spindell, Jr.

Robert Edward Browne, Jr. , Kevin Michael LeRoy , Misha Tseytlin , Attorneys, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant Wisconsin State Legislature.

Jeffrey Matthew Harris , Attorney, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Arlington, VA, Patrick Strawbridge , Attorney, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Boston, MA, for Defendants Republican Party of Wisconsin, and Republican National Committee.

Before Easterbrook, Rovner, and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.

The Democratic National Committee and other plaintiffs contend in this suit that statutes affecting the registration of voters and the conduct of this November's election, although constitutional in principle, see Luft v. Evers, 963 F.3d 665 (7th Cir. 2020), will abridge some voters' rights during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The state's...

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