US Supreme Court hears arguments in GOP Illinois congressman’s mail-in ballots suit

From Chicago Tribune:

Bost first challenged the law in May 2022, assisted by the conservative legal organization Judicial Watch, contending ballots should be counted on Election Day and that post-election counting threatened to dilute his margin of victory and required him to spend money on ballot watchers for the extended time period, causing him reputational and financial injury.

Attorney Paul Clement, a former U.S. solicitor general during the George W. Bush administration, represented Bost and Judicial Watch. Clement argued that “candidates have a unique, concrete and particularized interest in the rules of the electoral road, especially those that address which ballots are going to be counted and when.

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