The Supreme Court is poised to consider two major cases that could influence the U.S. presidential election—and it’s giving us flashbacks to Bush v. Gore. “One of the major criticisms from the left of the court’s opinion in Bush was that it was a ‘one day only’ ticket to hand George W. Bush the presidency without establishing a legal precedent to apply to other cases,” Richard L. Hasen writes. He explains why the court can’t afford to repeat the same mistake.

Plus:

• Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern home in on the easy-to-miss detail at the heart of Trump’s big court defeat.

• Donald K. Sherman argues that the Trump ballot case is this generation’s Brown v. Board of Education.