Supreme Court won't speed Texas vote-by-mail case

The Supreme Court said Thursday that it won’t speed a case challenging Texas’ restrictions on mail-in voting, leaving in place lower court rulings that said fear of contracting the coronavirus isn’t a valid reason under state law.

The high court had previously refused to lift those lower court rulings, and now it says it won’t speed an appeal, either.

Democrats, Hispanic groups and voting-rights activists had pushed to allow universal mail voting, saying it won’t be safe to run an election with the pandemic still raging.