Appeals court hands Trump a loss on mail voting as Supreme Court considers his executive order
The panel said the rule could disenfranchise millions of voters and found no evidence of past or impending mail fraud.
- On Thursday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration's request to lift a preliminary injunction, maintaining a block on new U.S. Postal Service mail-ballot rules before the November midterms.
- President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March directing the Postal Service to implement new mail-in ballot standards, which District Judge Indira Talwani subsequently blocked after finding it likely unlawful.
- Citing a lack of evidence for fraud, the appellate panel ruled the administration failed to demonstrate the rule would avoid "chaos and widespread voter disenfranchisement" ahead of the November 3 election.
- Election officials in Alabama, North Carolina, and Wisconsin have already begun distributing mail ballots, creating an immediate compliance crisis the court warned would likely disenfranchise voters if regulations were reinstated.
- The Supreme Court has yet to rule on the administration's repeated requests to stay the injunction, leaving the Postal Service's directive blocked through the November 3, 2026, midterms.
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‘Theatrical’ litigation: Republican AGs fight for Trump voting rules that their election officials say they can’t implement
By Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Republican attorneys general have shown their support for President Donald Trump’s election agenda by pressing courts to greenlight his proposed crackdown on mail voting. But election officials in at least half of those states have said that they won’t be able to comply with proposed US Postal
Amid uncertainty about mail-in ballots, WA leaders say they’re ready for what comes next. • Washington State Standard
While the state’s lawyers fight in court to repel the Trump administration’s repeated attacks against vote-by-mail, Washington’s election officials are drawing up contingency plans for the November election. Their main message to Washington’s 5 million registered voters: Don’t worry; we have it handled. If President Donald Trump succeeds in getting new, restrictive postal service regulations […]
Trump plan would bar millions of Americans from voting by mail, states tell Supreme Court; Colorado among states that challenged authority of Postal Service to implement plan that could disenfranchise voters
The Democratic-led states and voting rights groups suing to block enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict mail-in voting warned in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court on
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