States and civic groups urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order prohibiting the Trump administration on mail ballots, in SCOTUSblog's file. [1] This paper printed an ask, not an order on the 8th. Saturday has no new First Street order in fetched copy. Pending is not a ruling. Silence from the Court is not a granted stay. Print pending. Do not print decided. Leave a named order to the edition that owns an order.

No Saturday SCOTUS order is in the mail-ballot stack, so pending remains the word and not a granted stay.
A pending ask is still pending. Saturday recap that treats One First Street silence as a ruling is a feed, not an order.
No Saturday stay is in the mail-ballot stack, so pending remains the Court's word as this desk has it.
The stay stays off the page until an edition that owns one.

Off-page stays stay off; Saturday's stays. Pending is the word. One First Street is silent.

Silent First Street stays silent; Saturday's word is pending. No stay in the stack. Civic asks are not orders.

Saturday's word is pending. No stay in the stack. Civic asks are not orders.

The Supreme Court issued no Saturday order on the mail-ballot fight. Civic groups asked; the justices did not answer. An unanswered ask is not a granted stay. Silence on the docket does not write a ruling.
Civic asks are not orders. The justices did not answer Saturday. No Saturday order issued.

Civic asks are not orders. The justices did not answer Saturday. No Saturday order issued.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington