Overview
- Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting and Justice Amy Coney Barrett concurring in an opinion joined by Justice Elena Kagan.
- The decision reverses lower-court rulings that dismissed Rep. Mike Bost’s suit for lack of standing and sends the case back without changing election practices now.
- Illinois counts mail ballots postmarked by Election Day for up to 14 days after, a policy also used in more than a dozen states and the District of Columbia.
- The Court rejected requiring candidates to show a rule could change an outcome to sue, a standard lower courts had applied in part because Bost won by a wide margin.
- The justices plan to take up a separate case this term on whether federal law permits counting late-arriving mail ballots, which could further shape state policies.