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. Sunday 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 Sunday SCOTUS order is in the mail-ballot stack, so pending remains the word and not a granted stay.
A pending ask is still pending. Sunday recap that treats One First Street silence as a ruling is a feed, not an order.
No Sunday stay is in the mail-ballot stack, so pending remains the Court's word as this desk has it.
Sunday's wires carry no stay; the desk leaves the line where it found it.

Silent streets rule nothing; Sunday's street is silent. Pending holds. Counsel is kept.

Kept counsel stays kept; Sunday's stack has no stay. One First Street issued nothing. Pending remains the word.

Sunday's stack has no stay. One First Street issued nothing. Pending remains the word.

Counsel for states and civic groups still want that mail-ballot bar left standing. Sunday's First Street pile held no order answering them. Quiet is not a granted stay. Decided is a word the Court has not used.
Counsel asked; the justices did not answer. The Court used no verb today. Sunday's First Street pile is still empty of a stay.

Counsel asked; the justices did not answer. The Court used no verb today. Quiet is not a granted stay.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington