Marc Elias
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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All right, on the mail-in ballot front though, this was a very important case in that the U.S.
Supreme Court said that the effort by Republicans to disqualify categorically
ballots cast before Election Day, postmarked for Election Day, put in the mail before Election Day, but received because they came through the mail after Election Day, that those ballots would not be systematically and categorically thrown in the trash.
That's what this case was, right?
So the RNC had argued that the 19 states that allow ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day, perceived afterwards,
The RNC said that those all need to be rejected.
The court said no.
And it was a 5-4 decision written by Justice Coney Barrett and with the chief justice as the other sort of, you know, fifth vote.
And, you know, look, this is a big win for democracy.
It's a big win for my law firm and I. This is a big win for voting rights.
The fact is the RNC brought this case because they understood that it involved hundreds of thousands, maybe more than a million votes in a presidential year.
that it would impact Democrats more heavily than Republicans.
That's actually part of their original complaint as to why they had standing.
And that's because more Democrats vote by mail than Republicans, but also younger voters and minority voters tend to have their ballots arrive later than older voters.
So this was a big win.
It was a setback for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
But to your point, like, no, they're not done.
Like, they're not like, oh, well, you know, now we'll just play by the rules.
You know, now we'll just compete on the level playing field of ideas.
No, now they are talking about other ways to try to target these ballots and others like them, including by telling the Postal Service not to deliver mail-in ballots unless the names of the voter is on an approved list.
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