Veterans Urge SCOTUS To Block Texas’ Age-Based Ballot Rule

A group of veterans have told the U.S. Supreme Court that Texas’ age cutoff for absentee voting could dissuade nearly one million Texas combat veterans from casting their ballots in November.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled in May that a lack of immunity to the virus didn’t qualify as a physical disability that would allow voters younger than 65 to cast their ballots by mail rather than in person. The Texas Democratic Party then took its constitutional challenge to the federal courts, and the case has landed at the Supreme Court.

Hundreds of thousands of Texas veterans younger ...