Steve Hobbs
Coverage of Steve Hobbs in the Nexus archive.
- Supreme Court ruling gives a reprieve to states with grace periods for receiving mail ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of counting mail ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward, preserving grace periods in 14 states. The decision rejected a Republican National Committee challenge to Mississippi's law, which allows ballots to be counted up to five days after Election Day, and spared states from last-minute changes before midterms.
- Supreme Court ruling gives a reprieve to states with grace periods for receiving mail ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican National Committee effort to ban grace periods for mail ballots, preserving the practice in 14 states. The ruling upheld Mississippi's law allowing mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to five days later, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett affirming the legality of such periods under federal law.