Supreme Court to consider reviving Republican challenge to Illinois mail ballots law

The Supreme Court has agreed to see reviving a Republican situation to an Illinois instrumentality that allows message ballots to beryllium counted if they are received up to 2 weeks aft Election Day

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to see reviving a Republican situation to an Illinois instrumentality that allows message ballots to beryllium counted if they are received up to 2 weeks aft Election Day.

The justices volition perceive arguments successful the autumn implicit whether Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., and 2 erstwhile statesmanlike electors person the ineligible right, oregon standing, to writer implicit the instrumentality successful national court. Lower national courts ruled they deficiency standing.

But the lawsuit could service to amplify claims made by President Donald Trump that late-arriving ballots and drawn retired electoral counts undermine assurance successful elections.

Illinois is among 18 states and the District of Columbia that accept mailed ballots received aft Election Day arsenic agelong they are postmarked connected oregon earlier that date, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In March, Trump signed a sweeping enforcement bid connected elections that aims to necessitate votes to beryllium “cast and received” by Election Day and says national backing should beryllium conditional connected authorities compliance.

In their entreaty to the court, the Illinois Republicans said the justices should marque wide that candidates person the close to situation authorities regulations of national elections.

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