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Hey everyone, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton here with our weekly update on social media.

Thank you, as always, for joining us.

A lot to get into on the rule of law and the threats to our Republican form of government.

The biggest news this week, at least from Judicial Watch's perspective,

is the announcement by the Supreme Court that the oral argument in our historic case

over the late counting of late ballots,

meaning ballots that arrive after election day,

the oral argument is set for March 23rd,

which is a Monday.

So it's about six weeks from now.

We are going to be before the Supreme Court

trying to vindicate the rule of law in that important matter.

As you may recall from my previous reporting to you, Judicial Watch had filed a number of lawsuits in Mississippi, in Illinois, in California,

challenging those states counting ballots that arrive after election day.

Federal law sets an election day, essentially, you know, the second Tuesday of every November, more or less,

for presidential elections, you know, every four years, and congressional elections every two years.

And what happened, these states, upwards of 19 states, are counting ballots that arrive late.

So they get the mail-in ballots in Illinois for up to two weeks after election day.

In Mississippi for up to five days after election day. California, it's up to five days after election day, California it's up to seven days after election day.

Other jurisdictions have similar extensions of election day beyond what federal law requires.

Now, besides being kind of a straight up violation of federal law, it obviously encourages fraud

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