People with felony records can now vote in Nebraska — and it could help tip the balance in November

The headline here hides the epic smackdown of the Secretary of State and Attorney General who thought they had the right to decide what laws were constitutional and which were not.

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“Patty and Selma at the Department of Motor Vehicles may not be constitutional scholars, but they know that they are expected to follow the law,” Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman wrote in the high court’s ruling, criticizing Evnen and Attorney General Mike Hilgers for taking it upon themselves to declare the law unconstitutional. “Do we want to live in a world where every state employee who has a hunch a statute is flawed gets to ignore it?”