It is unlikely that the court ends up playing a major role in the outcome, according to elections experts, but it is possible. Here’s why.

The Supreme Court gave Virginia the green light Wednesday to purge 1,600 people from its voter rolls ahead of Election Day, reversing a lower court that blocked the plan—the first in anticipated slew of decisions on voting rules the court is likely to make as Election Day nears.

Following the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden, Donald Trump and his allies brought a storm of legal cases challenging the outcome. After losses in lower courts, some of these cases made their way to the U.