{"id":10337,"date":"2025-11-13T02:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:29:33","slug":"scotus-agrees-to-hear-key-election-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=10337","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Key Election Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">Ahead of next year\u2019s critical midterms, the Supreme Court has agreed to take on a key election case.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h4>Connect with others in your state in prayer.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">From SCOTUSblog:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">Setting the stage for a major ruling on election law, the Supreme Court on Monday  to decide whether federal law requires ballots to be not only cast by voters but also received by election officials by Election Day. As part of the list of orders from the justices\u2019 private conference on Friday, the court took up\u00a0, a challenge by the Republican National Committee and others to a Mississippi law (as well as similar laws in 30 other states and the District of Columbia) that allow mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are received within five business days after Election Day.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">The dispute began in 2024, when the RNC \u2013 along with the Mississippi Republican Party and two individuals \u2013 went to federal court to challenge the Mississippi law. Their case was later joined with a similar case brought by the Libertarian Party of Mississippi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">While a judge in Mississippi ruled in favor of the state\u2019s law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed the ruling. The appeals court wrote that federal election law dictates all ballots must received no later than Election Day.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi appealed to the Supreme Court in June, seeking clarity on the issue ahead of next year\u2019s midterms. The state summarized the importance of the case, stating, \u201c[t]he stakes are high: ballots cast by\u2014but received after\u2014election day can swing close races and change the course of the country.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>In response to the state\u2019s appeal, the Republican National Committee called on the Supreme Court to leave the 5th Circuit\u2019s ruling in place. It said that \u201cchaos and suspicions of impropriety \u2026 can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of an election, adding that allowing ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted could impede resolving any potential post-election disputes.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>So what comes next? According to SCOTUSblog, the high court \u201cwill likely hear oral arguments sometime next year, with a decision to follow by late June or early July.\u201d For now, lets pray for wisdom for each justice, and let\u2019s pray they would protect our elections.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Share your prayers for the Supreme Court below.<\/h4>\n<p>(Excerpt from SCOTUSblog. Photo Credit: Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash)<br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Ahead of next year\u2019s critical midterms, the Supreme Court has agreed to take on a key election case. Connect with others in your state in prayer. \u00a0 From SCOTUSblog: Setting the stage for a major ruling on election law, the Supreme Court on Monday to decide whether federal law requires ballots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2075,319,1373,317,937,2074],"class_list":{"0":"post-10337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-prayer","8":"tag-agrees","9":"tag-case","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-hear","12":"tag-key","13":"tag-scotus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}