Supreme Court may revive Republican challenge to Illinois mail ballot law

The Supreme Court seemed ready to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump. The justices on Wednesday considered the narrower issue of whether a GOP congressman has the legal right to challenge the law that allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they are received up to two weeks later. Lower courts threw out the lawsuit from Rep. Mike Bost finding the late ballots likely had little effect on the race in his safe GOP district. Illinois argued that allowing the suit would open the legal floodgates and “cause chaos” for election officials.