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The Supreme Court on Monday sided with President Donald Trump in a mail-in ballot case stemming from his election integrity executive order.

The case is not over, but the high court allowed the federal government to continue implementing the election integrity policies while the case is on appeal.

The justices decided in a 6-3 shadow docket ruling to stay a district court ruling that blocked Trump’s executive order on election integrity and held that the states challenging the order lacked standing.

Democrat officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, sued to block Trump’s March executive order, which, among other things, created a list of eligible voters. The executive order required the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists.

The court determined the order imposed no direct burden or obligation on the states that would have given them Article III standing in the litigation.

The 6-3 ruling comes with the midterm elections fast approaching and early voting and mail voting set to begin in several states next month.

The U.S. Postal Service on Friday announced how it would implement the order.

The majority opinion says: “The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell.”

Lead plaintiff California has some of the most permissive ballot-harvesting rules in the nation. A 2016 law allows a voter to designate “any person” to return the voter’s ballot.

This story has been updated.

Last year, Senate Bill 1 went into effect in Ohio to combat diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now state lawmakers are looking to do even more to promote independent thinking on college campuses.

For the anniversary of his bill being signed into law, state Sen. Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, announced a new bill he has for civic centers on campus.

Incoming freshmen must take at least one three-credit course in American civic literacy, as mandated by Senate Bill 1. Under Cirino’s new bill, Senate Bill 461, state-established civic centers would be “the exclusive provider” of those courses.

These civic centers, which currently exist on five college campuses, were established and allocated $25 million as part of the state budget for 2023.

In addition to the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at Ohio State University, other centers exist at the University of Toledo, Cleveland State University, Wright State University, and Miami University.

Cirino told the Daily Signal that such centers were set up to be “independent.” While they are on university campuses and report to the provost and presidents of their universities, they have their own directors. The faculty, senates, and department chairs “have no purview over anything that they do in terms of curriculum or hiring faculty.” SB 461 gives responsibility, including designing required courses, to the center directors.

“We don’t want to have crazy courses—as has been reported—being set up to satisfy this requirement. We want to make sure that they’re really good American civics and history courses,” Cirino said.

Cirino said he wants the system to also have appropriations “so that future governors and future legislators would have a very difficult time changing what we set up to do here.”

Reporting from NBC 4 raises concerns about the centers pushing a certain conservative viewpoint. However, the bill’s text makes no mention of “conservative” or “liberal” politics. The center is to “educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth,” and students are expected to “reach their own informed conclusions.”

“It’s actually the opposite [of partisan],” Cirino explained.

“We’re not pushing viewpoints. We want a balance of viewpoints taught on campus. We want the students to figure out whether they like socialism or capitalism. But they have to be exposed to both of them. And let them decide.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has given OSU an F rating in its 2026 College Free Speech Rankings.

Reporting from The College Fix in August 2022 noted that Democrat professors at OSU outnumbered Republican professors about 7-to-1 for the political science, English, history, and philosophy departments.

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