Watson v. Republican National Committee · ¶104

The majority casts aside Maddox on two unpersuasive grounds. First, the majority suggests that Maddox turned on state law. Ante, at 18. But Maddox cited federal law and Congress’s constitutional powers under the Elections and Electors Appointment Clauses in holding that Montana’s ballot-receipt rules were “in conflict with” a “congressional Act.” 116 Mont., at 224, 149 P. 2d, at 115; see also id., at 222, 149 P. 2d, at 114 (explaining that “states have no power to interfere” with the federal election-day statutes). That state law also dictated the same conclusion does not diminish the court’s federal-law analysis.

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