In the shadow of approaching midterms, the Supreme Court declined to disturb a lower court's block on new mail-ballot rules sought by the Trump administration — a decision less about final answers than about the wisdom of rewriting the rules of democratic participation mid-game. Justice Kavanaugh's alignment with the majority on grounds of timing reveals how the Court, even when divided, recognizes that elections demand a kind of procedural stability that last-minute rule changes cannot provide. The dissents of Alito and Thomas remind us that this question is far from settled, and that the ten