Conservative group asks US Supreme Court to reverse ruling that allows Illinois mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day
Chicago Tribune
A conservative legal organization is ratcheting up its opposition to the requirement in Illinois that mail-in ballots be counted for 14 days after Election Day by calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse federal court rulings that upheld the law because three Republican plaintiffs lacked the legal standing to challenge it.
The appeal, filed Tuesday by the organization Judicial Watch, also asks the nation’s highest court to clarify rulings about who has the right to appeal post-Election Day challenges, after many lawsuits contesting individual state results of the 2020 election filed on behalf of Donald Trump were tossed for lack of standing. Judicial Watch was among several groups that assisted Trump in seeking to halt the counting of mail-in ballots after Election Day four years ago when Trump lost to President Joe Biden.
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Cop who killed Ashli Babbitt has ‘significant’ discipline history, including gun incidents: Report
Blaze Media
The U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6 once fired his service weapon at fleeing vehicles near his home while his neighbor was in the line of fire, a congressional oversight committee reported.
Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Air Force for records related to Byrd’s stay at Joint Base Andrews. Costs for his accommodations at the Presidential Inn totaled more than $35,000 from July 8, 2021, through Jan. 28, 2022, according to records obtained in 2023 by Judicial Watch.
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