More than 51 million mail ballots will be sent to voters in the coming weeks just from the District of Columbia and the two dozen states that are challenging the Trump administration’s 11th-hour attack on mail voting.
The Justice Dept. claims it needs time to implement the rule to prevent potential fraud in mail voting before the November midterms.
With less than 60 days until Election Day, the fight against President Donald Trump’s crusade to restrict voting is reaching a defining moment.
The Justice Department argued that states facing the earliest deadlines for mailing ballots have not shown compliance is impossible.
The Trump administration urged a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to let the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) impose sweeping new mail ballot restrictions for the midterms.
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s effort to immediately revive the use of a sweeping immigration database to check voter rolls, leaving in place a ruling that shut down a major piece of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda ahead of the midterms.
Democratic officials, voting rights advocates and state election leaders celebrated a ruling that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing sweeping new mail ballot restrictions for the 2026 midterms — casting the ruling as a victory for voting access and state control of elections.
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.
U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has opened an investigation into new whistleblower claims that the agency’s haphazard implementation of President Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order could unleash chaos and disenfranchise millions of voters this November, Democratic lawmakers said Friday.
“Unauthorized by the Elections Clause, the Final Rule clashes with Congress’s statutory scheme, and is unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s Elections Clause powers but also that power left to the States,” Talwani wrote Friday.