Supreme Court keeps mail voting restrictions on hold before midterms
The Supreme Court left in place a lower-court order blocking the Trump administration’s mail-in voting plan ahead of the November midterms.
The justices declined to clear the way for the policy on Monday in a 7-2 decision, with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting. The case concerns a Postal Service rule that would have required states to provide lists of eligible voters so ballots would go only to people on those lists.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the administration was unlikely to prevail in its challenge to the injunction and wrote separately that using the rule for the 2026 elections would be improper because state and local election officials do not have enough time to put it in place. The dispute is the third emergency appeal the administration has brought to the court over the plan.
The fight began after President Donald Trump signed a March executive order directing changes to mail-ballot handling. Federal courts blocked much of that effort, and voting by mail has already started in some states.
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