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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a legal challenge to a Texas law that requires voters under the age of 65 to provide justification to vote by mail, meaning that the Democrat-aligned attempt to sharply expand “no-excuse” mail-in ballots in the Lone Star state has failed, with implications for other states. According to an April 22 order list, the high court denied petition for a writ of cetriorari in a case that stems from a federal lawsuit filed in 2020 on behalf of the Texas Democratic Party and several voters who requested that Texas lift its age-based limitations...

A hearing has been set for Monday in U.S. District Court to hear arguments from Republican attorneys who filed a lawsuit yesterday on behalf of two Mercer County voters who have already cast absentee ballots for U.S. Senate but are worried their votes will now be nullified. Maj. Kevin Reilly, 37, of Hamilton, an army doctor currently stationed in Hawaii, and Daniel Patrick O'Connell, aPrinceton man visiting Paris, would both be disenfranchised if the New Jersey Supreme Court's order to print new ballots stands, Republicans will argue. Reilly, a married father of two, said he realized his vote and possibly...