States and civic groups urged the Supreme Court to leave a mail-ballot order in place. [1] SCOTUSblog filed the ask. [1] This paper printed justices silent as states keep mailing Monday. Tuesday has no named merits ruling in fetched copy. An ask is not an order. Pending is not decided. Print pending. Do not print a nationwide mail order.

Leave a named ruling to the edition that owns a named ruling. A quiet docket is not a win. Tuesday does not invent a stay.

Print pending. Tuesday is not a mail-ballot order. Civic groups urging a hold are not a Court order. Print pending as the named Tuesday docket word. Justices silent Monday remains silent Tuesday. Print the ask, not a nationwide order.

Civic groups urging holds file briefs, not orders. The justices' Monday silence extended into Tuesday. Pending is the docket's steadiest state.

Mail-ballot fights recur every cycle with new plaintiffs and old arguments. The Court's silence is seasonal. Tuesday's ask joins the pile.

Seasonal silences stay seasonal; Tuesday's ask joins the pile. Civic groups file briefs. Justices issue no nationwide order.

The justices' Monday silence extended into Tuesday. Pending is the docket's steadiest state. Civic groups file briefs.

No nationwide stay issued on Tuesday. Mail-ballot fights recycle old arguments with new captions. Pending remains the Court's word.

Labor Day did not convert Sauer's stay into an order. Envelopes already in the system kept moving. Tuesday's pile is still pending, not granted.

Tuesday issued no nationwide stay. Envelopes already in the system kept moving. Pending remains the Court's word.

Tuesday's mail docket is still pending, not granted. The Court used no verb on Tuesday. First Street issued no nationwide stay.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington