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Supreme Court allows late-arriving mail-in ballots in defeat for Trump
The Supreme Court has ruled that states may count postal ballots received late if they were postmarked by election day, rejecting the Trump administration’s push to block it. The 5-4 decision upholds a Mississippi law that had permitted the counting of mail-in ballots postmarked before election day but arrived up to five days afterwards. The ruling marks a significant political defeat for Donald Trump, who called the decision a “tremendous loss”. The president has repeatedly stated that mail-in ballots are vulnerable to fraud. The states that allow late-arriving postal ballotsRead more
Alaska man charged with threatening Supreme Court justices
A man from Alaska has been arrested for allegedly threatening six US Supreme Court justices and two of their family members. The US Justice Department said Panos Anastasiou, 76, sent hundreds of messages including threats to hang and shoot justices. He was charged with 22 counts of making threats and appeared in court in Anchorage on Wednesday. The public defender representing Mr Anastasiou declined to comment on Thursday. According to a criminal complaint, the messages “contained violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination via torture, hanging, andRead more