GOP Rejected Twice by Supreme Court in Ballot-Deadline Clashes
- Court backs North Carolina’s six-day absentee ballot extension
- Pennsylvania Republicans rebuffed in bid for fast-track review
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The U.S. Supreme Court dealt Republicans two blows on the deadlines for mail ballots to arrive in states that could decide the presidential election, leaving intact a six-day extension in North Carolina while refusing to schedule fast-track review of a GOP appeal involving Pennsylvania.
The court gave no explanation in allowing the extra time in North Carolina over three dissents. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch said they would have blocked the extension, imposed by a Democratic-controlled elections board.