Supreme Court clears hurdle for Trump mail-voting order
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted a court order blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing parts of his executive order restricting the use of mail-in ballots. The ruling comes ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. Although voter fraud is rare, Trump has repeatedly questioned the security of […] The post Supreme Court clears hurdle for Trump mail-voting order appeared first on St. Louis American.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted a court order blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing parts of his executive order restricting the use of mail-in ballots. The ruling comes ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of Congress.
Although voter fraud is rare, Trump has repeatedly questioned the security of mail-in ballots and vowed to end their use before the midterms. The Justice Department said the lawsuit challenging Trump’s directive was premature and that the states did not have the required legal standing at this stage to sue.
The justices voted 6-3 along ideological lines to grant the Justice Department’s emergency request to lift an injunction issued in June by Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani. The injunction had blocked parts of Trump’s executive order. The three liberal justices dissented.
The Supreme Court’s ruling, however, does not clear the way for the administration to immediately implement the mail-voting restrictions. A separate injunction issued by Talwani on Aug. 11 in a lawsuit brought by voting-rights groups remains in place, blocking key provisions of Trump’s order for the November election.
Trump’s directive requires the U.S. Postal Service to follow new voter-list requirements in handling mail-in ballots. The Postal Service recently moved to implement Trump’s directive, but those requirements remain blocked for now.
About 30% of all ballots were cast by mail in the 2024 presidential election, according to federal data. A 2025 Brookings Institution study found roughly four cases of fraud for every 10 million mail ballots cast.
The states that challenged Trump’s actions contend that the administration’s “rushed effort to change the rules of mail voting on the eve of the November midterms risks disenfranchising a substantial number of voters.”
Sylvester Brown Jr. is the Deaconess Foundation Community Advocacy Fellow.
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