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President Donald Trump publicly lamented what he described as a "tremendous loss" after the Supreme Court declined to strike down Mississippi's rules permitting late-arriving absentee ballots, a rebuke that came from an unlikely quarter.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett — whom Trump himself nominated to the bench in 2020 — rejected arguments that federal law should preempt Mississippi's practice of counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.
Trump responded to the defeat not by conceding the legal ground, but by sharpening his call for a national voter-ID bill.
A Nominee Breaks Against the Administration The ruling's political sting derives in large part from its author.
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