US Postal Service Cannot Carry Out Trump Order on Mail Ballot Delivery, Judge Rules
The ruling preserves ballot delivery for states that declined to share voter lists and reinforces a 2021 settlement requiring timely election mail.
- On Wednesday, District Judge Emmet Sullivan blocked the Postal Service from implementing President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in ballot delivery, preventing the agency from withholding service to states refusing to provide specific voter lists.
- President Donald Trump's March executive order directed the Department of Homeland Security to compile lists of eligible voters, requiring the Postal Service to deliver ballots only to individuals on verified state lists.
- Sullivan sided with the NAACP, finding the rule violated a 2021 legal settlement requiring "extraordinary measures" to ensure timely election mail delivery; a Boston-based judge previously halted the policy for two-dozen states.
- Gary Peters, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, denounced the order as "blackmail" against states, arguing the Constitution grants states authority over elections, not the federal government.
- While the Trump administration will likely appeal the decision, the president continues to argue without evidence that mail-in voting is plagued by fraud, marking the second judicial defeat in two weeks for his efforts.
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