This week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that challenges an Illinois law requiring state election officials to count mail-in ballots received two weeks after Election Day.

Six-term Rep. Mike Bost, an Illinois Republican, is seeking to reverse a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a lawsuit filed on behalf of him and two Illinois presidential electors.

The lawsuit was initially filed on May 25, 2022, and is one of a series of cases filed by Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, seeking to exclude votes received after Election Day.

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