Supreme Court agrees to hear case over counting ballots that arrive late

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case addressing whether states may count ballots that arrive after Election Day.

The Republican National Committee and Mississippi Libertarian Party challenged the state's law permitting the counting of ballots postmarked by Election Day should they arrive within five days, Politico reported. 

The court agreed to hear the matter after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law in 2024.

President Donald Trump, for his part, has long been a critic of mail-in ballots and pointed to the expansion of the practice during the COVID-19 pandemic when making his 2020 election fraud claims.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.