No Rehearing In Overturn Of State Law Allowing Ballot Receipt After Election Day

( March 18, 2025, 12:15 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied panel rehearing and rehearing en banc of a panel decision striking down a COVID-era Mississippi state law providing that mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day may be received by the registrar within five days of Election Day and still be valid, with five circuit judges dissenting from the denial....