CHAD ENNIS: Supreme Court Can Restore Fair Court Access For Conservative Election Challenges
This week the Supreme Court is set to hear Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections. The case is about access to courts.
For too long, courts have opened their doors to left-wing groups filing frivolous lawsuits to election integrity laws but denied meaningful challenges from conservatives. Bost can correct this.
Michael Bost is a Congressman from Illinois. He challenged an Illinois law that allowed mail ballots to be received and counted up to 14 days after Election Day. He argued that by extending the receipt of mail ballots beyond Election Day, the Illinois law conflicted with federal law that sets Election Day as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. (RELATED: CLIFF MALONEY: Ending Mail-In Ballots Necessary To Restore Trust In Our Elections)
The lower courts dodged answering this question by finding that Bost did not have standing to challenge the law because Bost was not harmed by it. Bost was, therefore, tossed out of court before he could even make his case.
Exactly 89% of Americans agree that allowing mail ballots........
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