The USPS Inspector General found "widespread manipulation" of customer service surveys creating a phony 5 percent spike in consumer satisfaction with mail service between 2023 and 2025. Data doctoring persisted even after one cheating scheme was uncovered.
The U.S. Postal Service has slowed down mail deliveries so much it's failing to meet even its lowered performance targets, a new report from the Government Accountability Office found. Why it matters: The Postal Service is part of the connective tissue of American life: delivering prescription drugs and ballots , carrying government notices and bills, helping businesses reach customers across the country. - Now its attempts to shore up its finances are disproportionately affecting rural communities . The big picture: The Postal Service has given itself more time to deliver some first-class mail, the congressional watchdog's report notes, which millions of Americans rely on for medications, bills, paychecks, financial documents and…
We are hearing from Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh this week who says that the door is not fully closed on the United States Postal Service (USPS) enacting Trump's ballot-mail rules in the future. This comes after President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterms. LiveNOW’s Alexandra Goldberg is speaking with Jessica Huseman, the Editorial Director with Votebeat, to learn more about how this ruling could impact future elections. "In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority," Kavanaugh wrote in…
The Supreme Court this week rejected a push from the Trump administration to limit which Americans can vote by mail. NewsNation's Jessica Kartalija joins "NewsNation Live" to discuss the ruling, which came ahead of National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 15 and the upcoming midterm elections, as well as President Donald Trump's response. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live with Marni Hughes." Weekdays starting at 9a/8C.#NewsNationLive NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
The justices take their time and pick their spots, but they have rejected presidential initiatives on tariffs, citizenship, the National Guard — and now the coming election.
The Supreme Court has rejected President Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in ballots for the November midterms. In a brief order issued Monday night, the majority did not explain its reasoning for leaving in place a lower court order blocking the administration’s plans. Instead, the majority wrote that the Trump administration was quote, "unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge" to the lower court order. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. Joe has some choice words for the Justices as the panel breaks down the ruling and what it means with midterms around the corner.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country, rebuffing a proposal that election officials warned would have had catastrophic consequences if allowed to take effect for this year’s midterms. In one of the most significant cases to appear on the court’s quick-turn docket in years, a majority of the justices blocked the procedure that would have given the US Postal Service the unprecedented power to withhold potentially millions of mail ballots. The decision is a significant loss for the president, who for years has railed against mail voting with false allegations of extensive fraud, while continuing to vote by mail himself. CNN senior…
The Supreme Court refused to clear the way for President Trump’s mail-in voting plan for the midterms on Monday over the dissents of two conservative justices, keeping intact a judge’s block that declared the plan unlawful. #Supremecourt #mailinballots #midtermelections
President Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting ahead of the midterms were thwarted by the Supreme Court, but they have sowed confusion and doubt among some voters.
The Trump administration had asked the justices to allow a new Postal Service plan to screen ballots just weeks before the midterm elections.