Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

The justices did not indicate whether they believe President Trump has the right to exclude as many as 11 million people from the population base.

It was a reversal from earlier actions taken by the high court in response to state restrictions on organized religion during the pandemic.

The action sets ground rules for mail-in voting in one of the nation’s key battleground states, where 2 million ballots already have been returned.

The Constitution does not set the number of justices. Created in 1789 with six, the court has veered from five to 10, settling at nine 150 years ago.

If President Trump and Senate Republicans can get a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, it will mark the biggest change there since 1991.

Ginsburg, 87, died late Friday on the eve of Rosh Hashanah following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

The decision could have a major impact on November’s presidential election because of Florida’s history of razor-thin electoral margins.

Their independence has at times unnerved conservatives who cheered Gorsuch’s nomination in 2017 and were optimistic about Kavanaugh’s 18 months later.

Voting rights groups told the Supreme Court that Florida’s system amounts to a “poll tax” that violates the 24th Amendment to the Constitution.