US Supreme Court delivers Trump a temporary win on mail-in voting
The Republican president signed an order in March seeking to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the November midterm elections. A district court blocked its implementation but the Supreme Court on Monday lifted the judge's stay, allowing parts of Trump's directive to go ahead for now.
The US Supreme Court has temporarily allowed parts of President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting to go into effect. The order, issued in March, aimed to limit mail-in voting ahead of the November midterm elections. A district court had blocked its implementation, but the Supreme Court lifted the stay on Monday.
The court's decision, with a 6-3 conservative majority, allows Trump's directive to proceed for now, but does not necessarily mean it will remain in effect. The court's holding only addresses the speed at which lower federal courts acted, not the legality of the order itself. Several active cases challenging the order are ongoing in lower courts.
The decision was not unanimous, with the three liberal justices dissenting. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed concern that the ruling would "needlessly inject chaos" into the elections. The court's action leaves open the door for states to sue again in the coming months, and another injunction blocking the US Postal Service from enforcing tighter rules for voting by mail remains in place.
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