Trump Wants to End Mail Voting. The Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Appear Eager to Assist.

President Trump is pushing the Senate to pass the Save America Act to outlaw mail-in voting, and the Supreme Court's conservative justices signaled during oral arguments Monday in Watson v. Republican National Committee that they may assist by striking down Mississippi's law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after Election Day if postmarked by Election Day. At least 725,000 ballots were postmarked by Election Day and arrived within the legally accepted post-election window during the 2024 election, according to The New York Times. Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito, and Kavanaugh raised concerns about mail-in ballot deadlines and suggested the practice could be vulnerable to fraud, despite Mississippi's solicitor general noting no documented examples of such fraud. Liberal justices warned that any decision restricting mail-in ballots could also jeopardize early voting, which 47 states currently use, and experts caution that changing deadline rules could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters unaware of stricter rules or affected by postal delays.