DAILYCALLER (Mark Tanos) - Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rules For 2026 Election
‘Ensure only Americans vote in American elections’
‘Ensure only Americans vote in American elections’
President Trump has launched a broad, governmentwide effort to take more control of state-run elections and sow doubt about the outcome.
Officials cheered the order blocking President Trump’s last-minute effort to change the rules on mail ballots, noting that some states had already mailed ballots.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just denied the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case, blocking Trump’s executive order likely through the midterms. Chris Hayes has the latest.
The Supreme Court just denied the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case, blocking Trump’s executive order likely through the midterms. MS NOW senior legal reporter Lisa Rubin joins to discuss.
The court ruling came one day before the new regulation was set to take effect.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote that the administration’s reasons for a rule limiting the length of stay for academics and journalists were “exceptionally weak.”
The Supreme Court struck down the U.S. Postal Service's rule restructuring mail-in voting Monday, halting a major Trump administration priority. The big picture: The decision is a major win for voting rights advocates and the states that challenged the administration's plan; it also reverses the Supreme Court's earlier green light for President Trump's mail-in voting order. - The justices' prior unsigned order allowing the rule to proceed was not a ruling on the merits — but this time around, they decided the government is "unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge." Driving the news: While the court denied the administration's stance, the justices were divided on the merits of the case. - Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in…
The Supreme Court struck down the U.S. Postal Service's rule restructuring mail-in voting Monday, halting a major Trump administration priority. The big picture: The decision is a major win for voting rights advocates and the states that challenged the administration's plan; it also reverses the Supreme Court's earlier green light for President Trump's mail-in voting order. - The justices' prior unsigned order allowing the rule to proceed was not a ruling on the merits — but this time around, they decided the government is "unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge." Driving the news: While the court denied the administration's stance, the justices were divided on the merits of the case. - Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in…Open
The Trump administration had said the plan was necessary to protect against voter fraud, while states and voting rights groups said it could inject chaos in contests that will determine control of Congress.