Supreme Court says states can count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states are legally permitted to accept and count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they are postmarked on time.
- Decided by a 5–4 majority, conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts to secure the ruling.
- The decision rejected a legal challenge brought by the Republican National Committee against a Mississippi law that allows a five-day grace period for late-arriving mail.
- Opponents of the grace periods argued unsuccessfully that an 1845 federal law required all ballots to be both cast and received by the official federal Election Day.
- By upholding these rules, the high court ensured that existing ballot grace periods across roughly 15 states and Washington, D.C., will remain fully intact for the upcoming midterm elections.
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ground law, rejecting Trump's decree to remove it for illegal immigrant children.
On Tuesday, June 30, the Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump's questioning of land law, a matter at the very heart of American identity. The highest American court, though mostly conservative, thus inflicted a major setback on the American president. He had signed a decree upon his arrival in power abolishing the law of land for the children of illegal immigrants.
Children born in the United States of parents with irregular or temporary status are U.S. citizens, the Court rules.
The Supreme Court rejects Trump's challenge to land law.
The 14th Amendment confers American citizenship on any child born in the United States, confirms the highest court in the United States.
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