With a flurry of cases decided last month, the Supreme Court has officially wrapped up its latest term. Much of the attention was absorbed by the Court’s ruling on birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, a decision that provoked outrage and indignation from immigration hawks.
But amidst this furor, another important decision flew under the radar. This was Watson v. Republican National Committee, in which the Court ruled 5–4 that federal law did not prevent mail-in ballots from being counted even if they were received after election day. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion drawing on precedent and historical practice to uphold a Mississippi law allowing absentee ballots postmarked on or before the date of an election to be counted as long as they arrived within five business days of the election.
Yet she seems to have misread the record.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/in-mail-in-ballots-decision-the-supreme-court-ignored-history/
