Mark Joseph Stern argues in Slate that one of Amy Coney Barrett’s first acts on the Supreme Court may be to disenfranchise voters whose late-arriving ballots will not count even if they are postmarked before Election Day. Voters in Wisconsin are already facing that reality in light of a 5-3 ruling the Roberts Court issued on Monday.

I don’t know what Barrett will do, but she won’t likely be a voice for representative democracy, and even if she’d joined the court in time for the Wisconsin case, she couldn’t have changed the outcome. For now, the Supreme Court has lurched so far to the right that the country will not recognize it, and soon the country will not recognize itself.

Fortunately, Joe Biden looks to have a healthy lead in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. He may be able to weather an open coup attempt by the U.S. Supreme Court. The country better hope so, because if Biden loses the election despite winning the popular vote by a wide margin, and it looks like the Court is responsible, that’s going to cause an open revolt.

It’s bad enough to have foreign actors like Russia fucking with the integrity of our elections, but our own high court is too much. And these shenanigans could have an impact even if they don’t hand Trump a second term. The Senate race in North Carolina could hinge on late-arriving ballots, for example, and that race could easily determine which party controls the Senate in the next Congress.

If you haven’t voted yet, I advise you to drop your ballot off in a designated dropbox or election office prior to Election Day. Either that, or take your chances with COVID-19 at your local precinct. It’s too late to rely on the mail.

It’s probably asking too much of 2020 for this election to go smoothly, but I hope most of the drama revolves around getting Trump packed and gone rather than fighting in the streets over another stolen election.