A U.S. flag is seen during a demonstration before a vote on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 26, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Siding with Wisconsin's Republican-led legislature, the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to allow an extension ordered by a federal judge in the deadline for returning mail-in ballots in the state, dealing a setback to Democrats.
The court, in a 5-3 vote with three liberal justices dissenting, left in place a lower court's Oct. 8 decision that blocked U.S. District Judge William Conley's ruling that would have let officials count ballots that were postmarked by the time polls close on Election Day on Nov. 3 but arrived up to six days later.
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