WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to think about reviving a Republican problem to an Illinois regulation that enables mail ballots to be counted if they’re obtained as much as two weeks after Election Day.
The justices will hear arguments within the fall over whether or not Rep. Mike Bost, R-Sick., and two former presidential electors have the authorized proper, or standing, to sue over the regulation in federal court docket. Decrease federal courts dominated they lack standing.
However the case might serve to amplify claims made by President Donald Trump that late-arriving ballots and drawn out electoral counts undermine confidence in elections.
Illinois is amongst 18 states and the District of Columbia that accept mailed ballots received after Election Day as lengthy they’re postmarked on or earlier than that date, in response to the Nationwide Convention of State Legislatures.
In March, Trump signed a sweeping govt order on elections that goals to require votes to be “solid and obtained” by Election Day and says federal funding ought to be conditional on state compliance.
Of their enchantment to the court docket, the Illinois Republicans stated the justices ought to clarify that candidates have the correct to problem state laws of federal elections.
