Court curbs Trump’s voting-rule push as Senate gridlock blocks his agenda

The Supreme Court rejected the GOP challenge to Mississippi’s late-ballot rule, enabling ballots received after Election Day to be counted and curbing Trump’s effort to restrict voting. Trump condemned the decision and pressed Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act, which remains blocked by a 60-vote filibuster. The term also features high-stakes cases on birthright citizenship and transgender-athlete bans, plus a ruling expanding presidential power to remove independent-agency officials, and the defamation verdict won by E. Jean Carroll against Trump.