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Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in voting executive order again
President Donald Trump’s executive order barring the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots to anyone not on a list of eligible voters compiled by the federal government suffered another legal setback.
Big picture view:
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ruled in favor of the League of Women Voters and other voting rights groups and issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Postal Service from taking any steps to implement the order before this fall’s midterm elections.
What they're saying:
"That it is now less than 90 days before the November 3, 2026 midterm elections underscores the critical need for an injunction to prevent Defendants from changing election rules on the eve of the election," she wrote.
The backstory:
Talwani sided with the plaintiffs’ argument that the executive order violated the Constitution because only the states and Congress have the power to regulate elections, writing in her decision that "[t]he executive branch has no authority to regulate elections."
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The judge also noted that the Trump administration’s lawyers had not defended the constitutionality of the order. The attorneys for the White House had sought to convince the court that the voting rights groups lacked standing to sue under the rules for how federal agencies develop and issue regulations.
Dig deeper:
The ruling marks the second time Talwani has ruled against the Trump administration in a case involving this executive order. In June, she sided with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who made a similar argument when they challenged the compilation of the federal list of eligible voters that was mandated by the order and would have been used by the Postal Service.
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In late July, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling, blocking the administration’s effort to resume the mail-in voting restrictions in the more than 20 states that were part of the lawsuit.
What's next:
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn the lower courts’ rulings in the case brought by the states. This latest ruling creates a new hurdle for the White House to clear in its attempt to get the order in place by November.
The Source: Information for this article was taken from The Associated Press. This story was reported from Orlando.
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Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in voting executive order again
President Donald Trump’s executive order barring the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots to anyone not on a list of eligible voters compiled by the federal government suffered another legal setback.
Big picture view:
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ruled in favor of the League of Women Voters and other voting rights groups and issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Postal Service from taking any steps to implement the order before this fall’s midterm elections.
What they're saying:
"That it is now less than 90 days before the November 3, 2026 midterm elections underscores the critical need for an injunction to prevent Defendants from changing election rules on the eve of the election," she wrote.
The backstory:
Talwani sided with the plaintiffs’ argument that the executive order violated the Constitution because only the states and Congress have the power to regulate elections, writing in her decision that "[t]he executive branch has no authority to regulate elections."
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The judge also noted that the Trump administration’s lawyers had not defended the constitutionality of the order. The attorneys for the White House had sought to convince the court that the voting rights groups lacked standing to sue under the rules for how federal agencies develop and issue regulations.
Dig deeper:
The ruling marks the second time Talwani has ruled against the Trump administration in a case involving this executive order. In June, she sided with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who made a similar argument when they challenged the compilation of the federal list of eligible voters that was mandated by the order and would have been used by the Postal Service.
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In late July, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling, blocking the administration’s effort to resume the mail-in voting restrictions in the more than 20 states that were part of the lawsuit.
What's next:
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn the lower courts’ rulings in the case brought by the states. This latest ruling creates a new hurdle for the White House to clear in its attempt to get the order in place by November.
The Source: Information for this article was taken from The Associated Press. This story was reported from Orlando.
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A judge expands a block on U.S. Postal Service work on Trump's mail-in voting order
A federal judge in Boston has expanded a court-ordered block on a key part of President Trump's executive order to limit voting by mail in this fall's midterm election.
The order released by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Tuesday comes as the wait continues for the Supreme Court to weigh in on an earlier ruling by Talwani.
The judge's latest ruling bans the U.S. Postal Service from trying to finish carrying out Trump's directives in every state. In June, the judge put out a ruling that blocks USPS efforts in only the 23 mainly Democratic-led states, plus Washington, D.C., that sued over the order.
Talwani found that the voting rights groups that made the request to effectively expand her June ruling are likely to prove in their lawsuit that Trump's order oversteps a president's authority under the Constitution. Talwani, a nominee of former President Barack Obama, also found that the order is causing confusion among voters.
"Throughout the multiple actions before district courts, courts of appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States, the federal government has declined to defend the constitutionality of the EO's directives," Talwani wrote.
The judge concluded that blocking USPS from following Trump's directives across the country will not harm the public, noting that the Trump administration "declined to argue that enjoining implementation of the EO will jeopardize the integrity of mail-in voting" and provided the court with no evidence of fraudulent absentee voting.
Under Trump's order, USPS is supposed to compile lists of eligible voters from states and deliver absentee ballots only to people on those lists.
The president has defended this order as a way to stop illegal voting by non-U.S. citizens, a problem that many studies have concluded is extremely uncommon.
The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and other groups that sued over Trump's order hailed Talwani's latest ruling as a protection for voters preparing to take part in the midterms.
"Today's ruling sends another necessary message to an administration that continues to weaponize portions of the government to sow chaos into our elections at the expense of eligible voters," said Sophia Lin Lakin, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney for the order's challengers, in a statement. "The president does not get to rewrite the rules of voting, and he certainly does not get to treat voters as collateral damage in his campaign to control state-run elections."
Edited by Benjamin Swasey
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