Mail ballots count, so count them, SUPCO rules

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of counting your vote. In Nevada so long as your ballot is post-marked on or before Election Day, it gets counted, even if vote counters don't get it to it until up to four days after the election.

Because that's fair.

Donald Trump, enemy of fairness, wanted that to end. So he ordered his party to sue a state (Mississippi, for the record) so the issue could get to the Supreme Court. The court would rule in Trump's favor, the Trump logic held, because how could it possibly not since he is history's greatest human and Supreme Court justices are puny mortals by comparison.

And yet this morning your U.S. Supreme Court sided with fairness, and against Trump & Co.

IN NEVADA CURRENT

Communication is good public policy. "When you make communication free for people who are incarcerated, you improve their participation in programs, their success in rehabilitation, you help them plan for reentry, you improve their chances of success when they are released” said the director of a prison practices watchdog organization. Making communication prohibitively expensive, meanwhile, has consequences too, and not in a nice way. Leilah Ortega reports: Nevada charges inmates to make phone calls. Maybe it shouldn’t.

There oughtta be a law... As it happens there are several of them taking effect this week. Micheal Lyle reports: Limits on cellphones in classrooms, path for foreign-trained doctors among new laws taking effect

Also...

US Supreme Court deals blow to Trump, ruling states can accept ballots after Election Day. As aforementioned. Via the D.C. bureau.

Ohio cities brace for impact of Supreme Court allowing Trump to take legal status away from Haitians. As suggested earlier, this morning's ruling on mail ballots notwithstanding, it is still a Trumpy court. This is a very good on-the-ground report on last week's Supreme Court temporary protected status ruling, via the Current's friends at the Ohio Capital Journal.

Federal health agency cancels most of its teen pregnancy prevention grants. Gah. Via Stateline.

Good luck