Supreme Court Rejects Maryland Election Ruling Challenge by GOP’s 2022 Candidate for Governor

The Supreme Court rejected on Feb. 21 Republican Dan Cox’s challenge to a state court order he argued unconstitutionally allowed the early counting of mail ballots in the gubernatorial election he lost in the fall.
Cox, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, lost the Nov. 8, 2022, general election by a 2-to-1 margin to Democrat Wes Moore. Cox conceded the election to Moore and his Supreme Court petition did not seek to overturn the election. Until last month when his term expired, Cox was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
Cox argued that Maryland state courts were wrong to suspend the state election law that forbid local boards of election from opening any mail-in ballot envelopes before the morning after Election Day. The Democrat-controlled state legislature passed a measure allowing the count to begin earlier, but then-Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, vetoed the measure in May 2022….