Case Summary:

Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections arises from a 2022 lawsuit in which Congressman Michael Bost and two Republican presidential elector nominees challenged Illinois’ mail‑ballot rules, which require election officials to count mail ballots that are postmarked or certified by Election Day but received within 14 days afterward. They sued the Illinois State Board of Elections and its executive director, claiming that counting these later‑arriving ballots unlawfully extends the federal Election Day set by 2 U.S.C. § 7 and 3 U.S.C. § 1 and dilutes their votes or forces them to expend additional campaign resources, but both the district court and the Seventh Circuit dismissed the case for lack of Article III standing before the Supreme Court took it up.

Case Summary:

Case v. Montana involves William Trevor Case, whose ex-girlfriend called 911 after he told her on the phone that he was going to kill himself, mentioned writing a note, appeared to cock a gun, and then made a popping sound before the line went dead. Three officers responded for a welfare check, knew about Case’s history of alcohol abuse, mental-health problems, prior suicide threats, and a past apparent “suicide‑by‑cop” incident, saw through the windows empty beer cans, an empty handgun holster, and a notepad that looked like a suicide note, got no response to loud knocking and calling, and about 40 minutes after arrival entered the home to render emergency aid. Inside, as an officer entered an upstairs bedroom, Case suddenly threw open a closet curtain holding a black object that looked like a gun, the officer shot and wounded him, a handgun was later found nearby, and Case was then prosecuted and convicted in Montana state court for assaulting a police officer after the trial court refused to suppress evidence from the warrantless entry