The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in an Illinois Republican congressman’s case challenging a state law on mail-in ballots.

In 2022, U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, sued over an Illinois law allowing mail-in ballots to count up to two weeks after they arrive at a local election authority. The ballots still have to be postmarked on or before Election Day to count.

“Those unlawful ballots could cost Congressman Bost the election, or at least reduce his margin of victory, and he has to pay his campaign staff for two extra weeks,” said Paul Clement, one of Bost’s attorneys.

Lower courts ruled that Bost didn’t have standing to bring the lawsuit, primarily because he couldn’t prove that the law hurt his ability to get elected. Clement said that opinion was wrongheaded, becau

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