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 the docket still an ask Tuesday. Wednesday 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. Wednesday does not invent a stay.

Print pending. Wednesday is not a mail-ballot order. An ask remains an ask. Leave a named stay to the edition that owns a named stay. Print pending as the named Wednesday docket word. Civic groups urging a hold are not a Court order.

An ask that stays an ask for weeks becomes furniture; the docket stops noticing it. Wednesday's mail file is furniture. Orders, when they come, rearrange the room.

Furnished dockets sit undisturbed; Wednesday's sits. Rearrangements come by order. Orders haven't come.

Unrearranged rooms stay pending; civic groups urged a hold. The Court issued nothing. Asks that sit for weeks become furniture.

SCOTUSblog filed an ask, not a nationwide mail order. States at the door still have no merits ruling. Tuesday's docket was an ask, and Wednesday did not rearrange it. Pending remains the only honest word on this page.
SCOTUSblog filed an ask, not a nationwide order. Wednesday did not rearrange Tuesday's pile. Pending remains the only honest word.

Wednesday issued no nationwide stay. Wednesday did not rearrange Tuesday's pile. Pending remains the only honest word.

Wednesday issued no nationwide stay. Wednesday did not rearrange Tuesday's pile. Pending remains the only honest word.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington