The Supreme court faced three contentions towards the Leser v. Garnett case. To begin with, the fifteenth amendment that granted all male citizens—regardless of race—the right to vote had been well-grounded for over fifty years. However, Justice Louis Brandeis argued that the fifteenth amendment used the same method of adoption as the nineteenth amendment, therefore, one couldn't be considered valid and the other invalid.

The second contention dealt with the fact that the ratifications for a number of state constitutions were inadequate. The third and final contention was that there was a violation of rules towards the ratifying decisions of Tennessee and West Virginia. Nonetheless, they were both held to be valid by the secretaries of each state, meaning that the court could not provide a requisite solution for the Leser v. Garnett case.

In conclusion, the fact that these situations were held to be valid justified that the nineteenth amendment was valid as well, and the less-famous Supreme court decision ensured that women's right to vote could be acted upon.