The Supreme Court ruled against Trump's effort to throw out mail-in voting rules, a win for voting access and a loss for Trump heading into the midterms.

• The court ruled 5-4 to uphold a Mississippi law that counts mail-in ballots arriving up to 5 days after election day, as long as they were postmarked before it.
• Trump-nominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett broke the tie and wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and the three liberal justices.
• Barrett said any national mail-in voting standard must come from Congress, not the courts — leaving states in control of their own election rules.
• Trump, enraged, is pushing the Save America Act, which would require proof of citizenship and photo ID and sharply limit mail-in voting.
• Several Republican senators oppose the bill, worried the strict ID and birth-certificate rules could block their own voters too.

Outlook: The ruling holds through the midterms, but Trump will keep pressing Congress to pass tougher voting restrictions.