U.S. Supreme Court Wants a Fourth Round of Briefs Before Deciding Whether to Hear Mississippi Case on When Absentee Ballots Must be Received

Posted on by September 12, 2025

On September 3, the U.S. Supreme Court asked the Republican National Committee and the Mississippi Libertarian Party to respond to the state’s Reply brief in Watson v Republican National Committee, 24-1260. This case involves the Mississippi law that says absentee postal ballots are valid if they arrive in the elections administration office by three days after election day. The Fifth Circuit, in a surprise ruling, had said that the 1872 federal law telling states to hold congressional elections in the first week of November actually means that all ballots must be in the hands of the election office by the end of election day.

If the Fifth Circuit is correct, that means that the laws of 48 states are invalid.

Generally, when a case is filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to hear the case, there are never more than three rounds of briefs. First the losing side in the lower court asks the Court to hear the case. Then, sometimes, the side that won the case in the court below responds. Then, commonly, there is a Reply brief, and that is the end until the Court decides whether to hear the case or not. But in this case, the Court, having read three sets of briefs, wants a Reply to the Reply Brief. That is due October 3.

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U.S. Supreme Court Wants a Fourth Round of Briefs Before Deciding Whether to Hear Mississippi Case on When Absentee Ballots Must be Received — 12 Comments

  4. ABS BALLOTS = SUBSTITUTE FOR IN PERSON VOTING O-N E-L-E-C-T-I-O-N DAYS.

    ONE DAY ELECTIONS TO REDUCE BALLOT BOX STUFFING

    ANY NEW AGE SCOTUS HACKS WITH ABOVE 50 IQS ???

  8. The AZ SPAMBOT still needs to answer Ifo’s questions instead of changing the subject, and voice vote or better yet standing count is still better than secret ballots.

  9. The hateful and divisive rhetoric, mirrored here by the AZ SPAMBOT, which falsely labels President Trump as a tyrant and those of us who support Him as fascists, is directly responsible for the many crimes of lunatic leftist political violence, such as the assassination of the late, great Charlie Kirk.

  10. Shame on the AZ-666 SPAMBOT, its luciferian troll moron programmer, and anyone else spreading such despicable lies.

  11. Absentee ballots, and ballots in general, need to be done away with. The increasingly rare ability to cast spells (also known as learning the ABCs) should have nothing to do with voting.

  12. Election night should be the only time to vote, count votes, and release vote results in any given year. One election night a year is enough!

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