Justice Department makes final case to 1st Circuit to revive USPS anti-mail voting rule
The Justice Department is racing the clock to get President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order enacted before the November midterms
The Justice Department is racing the clock to get President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order enacted before the November midterms
Pro-voting groups dug deep into colonial history, arguing the Founders deliberately gave Congress and not the president the power over the Postal Service given historical abuses from English monarchs.
The Department of Justice filed an appeal to the First Circuit as it tries to put President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order into effect before Election Day.
Democrats said the U.S. Postal Service rule to implement Trump’s executive order “presents an immediate, existential threat to mail voting throughout the country.”
There’s no reason for the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to lift a judge’s bar on President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order with a federal appeals court poised to act, Democratic states argued.
Democrats filed a new motion asking a federal district court in Washington, D.C., to order the administration to disclose the status of its work.
In 2024, 37% of Democrats reported voting by mail compared to 24% of Republicans, according to the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.
A bombshell whistleblower report contends USPS has been secretly scrambling to build “new and untested” systems that under normal circumstances would take nine months to a year, or even more.
Months ago, a federal judge in Massachusetts declared President Donald Trump’s attack on mail voting through executive order unconstitutional.
President Donald Trump’s attack on mail voting is reaching a crucial stage in the courts, but he’s only received backup from less than half of the Republican state attorneys general.
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