An appeals court held that mail-in ballots can’t be counted if they are received after Election Day. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released an opinion on Oct. 25 stating that federal law requires mail-in ballots be counted no later than election day. In September, the appeals court heard arguments over Mississippi’s
The opinion redirects the case back to the lower court while refraining from issuing an injunction that would halt Mississippi’s law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released an opinion on Oct. 25 stating that federal law requires mail-in ballots be counted no later than election day. In doing so, it ruled
Trump declared that he has assembled a team of lawyers and legal scholars who will be monitoring the 2024 election process closely. Former President Donald Trump said Friday that the upcoming 2024 presidential election will be subjected to the “closest professional scrutiny” and that anyone caught cheating will face severe legal consequences if he wins.
The last Republican who won it was George W. Bush in 2004. Like Trump, he appealed to Hispanic voters. It’s hard to say if New Mexico is in play, but it no longer appears to be on the sidelines: New polling shows former President Donald Trump looking stronger than expected in the state against the
More than 29,000 Republican voters packed the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas as Election Day approaches. LAS VEGAS—Former President Donald Trump said he would invoke a 1798 law to begin mass deporting millions of illegal immigrants, while also pledging to restore the economy and usher in a new “Golden Age for America,” if
The paper has issued endorsements for decades. The Washington Post will not make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race, the paper’s publisher said on Oct. 25. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” William Lewis, the publisher and CEO, said in an opinion article. The Washington Post did not offer
While returns in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan are inconclusive, those in Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Nevada are trending the GOP’s way. Republican voters appear to be running up big leads during the opening stages of early voting in at least four of seven battleground states, in some cases not only chipping into mail-in ballot