The Supreme Court will hear a case questioning whether Republicans can challenge an Illinois law allowing mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted.
The high court on Monday granted a petition brought by Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) and two GOP presidential elector nominees from Illinois who are attempting to block a state law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted if they arrive up to 14 days after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. Two lower courts threw out the challenge, finding that the parties suing state election officials had no legal standing to do so.
The question presented to the high court was whether Bost and the elector nominees, as federal candidates, have legal standing under Article
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