The Supreme Court will soon hear a case involving a challenge to a law allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots . However, the dispute before the justices will not be over whether the law is constitutional, but if the candidate has standing to sue over it.

In Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections , the question of whether a federal candidate has standing to sue over state election laws governing his election will come before the high court. Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) led a lawsuit filed against Illinois officials in 2022, alleging the state law that allows mail-in ballots to be collected 14 days after Election Day, as long as they are postmarked by Election Day, is unconstitutional. Lower federal courts ruled against Bost, finding he lacked standing while not reaching a decision on the mer

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