Downstate GOP Rep. Mike Bost took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday arguing that he and other political candidates should be allowed to sue to stop the counting of mail-in ballots received after Election Day.

Justices in the 6-3 conservative majority signaled their openness to allowing the congressman’s lawsuit to proceed, which potentially would clear the path for numerous legal challenges nationwide to voting rules that supporters of President Donald Trump have claimed unjustly favor Democratic candidates.

Bost’s attorney, Paul Clement, argued the six-term representative has standing to sue the Illinois State Board of Elections because he’s been harmed reputationally by late-arriving ballots narrowing his margin of victory, and financially saddled with an extra two weeks of

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