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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case weighing whether U.S. Rep. Mike Bost has the right to challenge Illinois’ vote-by-mail law.

Bost and others filed a lawsuit in 2022 arguing the Illinois law harms candidates because campaigns have to spend more resources monitoring the counting of ballots that come in after Election Day.

Lower courts ruled Bost did not have standing to sue. Bost has easily won elections to Congress since 2014.

Illinois law allows mail-in ballots to be counted if they arrive up to 14 days after an election, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

The justices quizzed attorneys for the state and Bost about who should be allowed to file lawsuits challenging an election regulation.

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