Supreme Court takes up a mail-in ballots case

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots. Justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the state law allowing properly postmarked ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day to be counted violated federal law. Mississippi is among 18 states and the District of Columbia that accept such ballots. President Trump strongly opposes late-arriving ballots. The case will be argued in the late winter or early spring.