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Two Conservative Justices Would Have Allowed Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rules
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Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, called the challenge to the restrictions a “Hail Mary pass” that was unlikely to prevail because of the Postal Service’s broad authority to regulate the mail.
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