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The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court Thursday to lift a temporary court order against the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting restriction as the federal government tries to put Trump’s anti-voting executive order into effect before the midterms.
With Election Day just two months away, the lawyer defending the Postal Service’s recently issued rule carrying out President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order could not tell a federal judge how — or even if — the new rule would work.
The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to allow its sweeping new mail ballot restrictions to take effect before the midterms. But its own lawyer could not tell the judge whether the administration’s system for carrying them out is actually ready to launch — much to the judge’s frustration.
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.
Perhaps the most pivotal scene yet in the months-long legal drama over President Donald Trump’s attempt to kneecap mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterms will unfold in a Boston courtroom Thursday morning.
An immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration over its escalating effort to screen state voter rolls for alleged noncitizens, arguing the campaign illegally threatens lawful voters with investigation and prosecution just weeks before the midterms.
Two groups representing minority voters in Florida filed a new lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block a pending law that would require voters in the state to prove their citizenship or else lose their right to register to vote and cast a ballot.
The U.S. Postal Service risks unleashing “massive chaos and confusion” by implementing expansive mail voting restrictions weeks before the upcoming midterms, a widely respected elections expert said in a new court filing.
House Democrats called on the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general to investigate new whistleblower claims that the agency’s haphazard implementation of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order could unleash chaos and disenfranchise millions of voters this November.
A newly disclosed U.S. Postal Service whistleblower report is quickly becoming evidence in multiple lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping mail voting restrictions.