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Voting rights advocates welcome supreme court decision to stop Trump administration from restricting mail ballots– live
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Voting rights groups and local officials welcomed the US supreme court decision on Monday to keep a new United States Postal Service rule from being implemented before the midterm elections.
Key facts
- California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, welcomed the US supreme court decision in the suit he filed, along with officials in 25 other states, to block the US Postal Service from interfering
- In this decision, the Supreme Court has made clear that the 2026 midterm elections must not be disrupted by the Trump administration’s efforts to implement an unlawful new mail-voting system
- The Constitution is clear: states hold the power to oversee elections, not the president or the Postal Service”, Jessica Mendoza, executive director of Arizona Students’ Association, said
- After losing in the district and appellate courts, the Trump Administration has now lost at the U.S. Supreme Court
Summary
The Campaign Legal Center and Democracy Defenders Fund had filed an amicus brief at the supreme court calling for the postal service rule to be blocked on behalf of: the League of United Latin American Citizens, Secure Families Initiative, Arizona Students’ Association, the city of Madison, Wisconsin and Travis county, Texas. “This rule, as directed by an executive order issued by the president in March, would have given the executive branch unprecedented control over the way Americans vote by mail,” the groups said in a statement. “In this decision, the Supreme Court has made clear that the 2026 midterm elections must not be disrupted by the Trump administration’s efforts to implement an unlawful new mail-voting system mid-election,” Tianna Mays, legal director at Democracy Defenders Fund, said.