2025 term · Roberts Court · vote not recorded
Watson v. Republican National Committee
609 U.S. 672
The record
- Term
- 2025
- Decided
- Issue area
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- Vote split
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- Winning party
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- Decision direction
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- Chief Justice
- Roberts Court
- Disposition
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- Docket
- 24-1260
- U.S. Reports
- 609 U.S. 672
- S. Ct. citation
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- LEXIS citation
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- Opinion by
- Amy Coney Barrett
Holding
The federal election-day statutes—3 U. S. C. §1, 2 U. S. C. §§ 1, 7—do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days thereafter; nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by election day.
How the bench divided
No per-justice vote lineup was available for this case.
Read the opinion
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