Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Mail Ballot Restrictions
Justice Brett Kavanaugh said states lacked time to implement the new Postal Service ballot-mail rule before the 2026 elections.
- On Monday, the Supreme Court blocked the U.S. Postal Service from imposing new mail-in ballot restrictions for the 2026 midterm elections, keeping in place a lower court's preliminary injunction that maintains existing state voting procedures.
- President Donald Trump initiated the policy in March, directing the Postal Service to establish new envelope design standards and mandatory voter list submissions; the system would reject all ballots in a batch if one mismatch occurred.
- An anonymous whistleblower warned in September that the Postal Service system was "secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed," while the agency failed to launch a working portal for voter lists, risking a "catastrophic failure" preventing millions of Americans from voting.
- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said the court protected voters against the administration's "manufactured chaos and confusion," while Trump criticized the justices on Tuesday, calling them "not the people I interviewed."
- Although the court denied the administration's stay request, legal questions regarding the Postal Service's statutory authority remain unresolved as litigation continues in lower courts; the current injunction prevents the new requirements from applying to the 2026 elections.
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By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed and Gabe Cohen, CNN Election officials from both Democratic and Republican states breathed relief when the Supreme Court Monday blocked President Donald Trump's extensive restrictions on mail voting, measures that they had warned would have disrupted this system and potentially deprived of
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s mail ballot restrictions
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SCOTUS Blocks Trump USPS Mail-Ballot Security Rule for Midterms, Citing Timing
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