US judge blocks Trump's mail-in voting executive order
The ruling blocks two central provisions and covers 23 states and the District of Columbia, while the administration is expected to appeal.
- On Thursday, District Judge Indira Talwani blocked parts of President Donald Trump's executive order on mail-in voting, preventing it from taking force ahead of elections that will decide control of Congress.
- President Trump signed the order on March 31, citing election fraud claims to justify restricting mail-in voting and directing the Department of Justice to prioritize prosecution of officials issuing ballots to people deemed "not eligible" to vote.
- Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers Wednesday that the Postal Service would refuse to deliver ballots if states decline to share absentee voter lists, as USPS recently moved to implement these new ballot rules.
- Democratic-Led states challenged the directive, arguing it unlawfully interferes with election administration and risks disenfranchising eligible voters; Judge Talwani sided with the states, preventing the order's enforcement for now.
- The Trump administration is expected to appeal, while Democrats contest a separate ruling by Trump-appointed District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington. That case is moving to the Appeals Court for the District of Columbia.
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The judge sided with a coalition of nearly two dozen states that argued that the states and Congress, not the president, have the power to set election rules.
New York, Jun 25 (EFE).- A Massachusetts federal judge this Thursday blocked key provisions of an executive order by President Donald Trump seeking to limit the mail vote in the federal elections, a measure that was challenged in court by more than twenty states. The executive order, signed by Trump in March, envisaged that the federal government would produce a census of eligible voters in each state using Social Security data and ordered the U…
A federal judge in Boston blocked on Thursday the implementation of the U.S. President Donald Trump's decree, which sought to harden the rules for voting by mail, preventing the measure from coming into force before the November elections, which will define the control of Congress. District Judge Indira Talwani gave reason to a coalition of states governed by democrats, who argued that the Republican president attempts to interfere illegally in …
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