Supreme Court says Trump can’t enforce new mail-in ballot regulation
The decision means a Postal Service measure that could lead to ballots’ not being sent to voters won’t be in effect for this November’s midterm elections.
WASHINGTON — Casting a decisive blow against President Donald Trump’s hopes of exercising federal control over the midterm elections, the Supreme Court on Monday prevented a U.S. Postal Service regulation concerning mail-in ballots from going into effect.
The court in a brief order rejected an emergency application the Trump administration filed seeking to block a lower court ruling that said the regulation was most likely unlawful. The court appeared to be divided 7-2, with two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissenting.
The decision means a Postal Service measure that could lead to ballots’ not being sent to voters won’t be in effect for this November’s midterm elections.
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