In an unsigned opinion, the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Trump’s executive order designed to tighten rules around mail-in voting. The court did not weigh in on the legality of the order, and other legal complications may prevent its implementation.
Host Scott Tong checks in how the battle over absentee ballots is impacting the midterms with Rick Hasen, director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
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