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The Supreme Court Just Blocked Trump’s Efforts to Control Mail-In Voting for the Midterms
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The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to impose severe restrictions on mail-in voting weeks ahead of the midterms.
Key facts
- The court, which was divided 7-2, with conservative justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting, upheld a lower court’s injunction blocking the United States Postal Service from implementing
- The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court’s preliminary injunction,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion with Justice Ketanji Brown
- The White House and the USPS did not respond to a request for comment about the ruling
- The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to impose severe restrictions on mail-in voting weeks ahead of the midterms
Summary
The court, which was divided 7-2, with conservative justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting, upheld a lower court’s injunction blocking the United States Postal Service from implementing new rules around who can receive a mail-in ballot ahead of November’s vote. Under this new rule, states would have had to submit lists of eligible voters to the Postal Service, which would then confirm that ballots were sent only to people on that list. “The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court’s preliminary injunction,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Kavanaugh did add, however, that “there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority.