Significance of Supreme Court's decision to block Trump's mail-in voting restrictions

The US Supreme Court has blocked the US Postal Service from implementing rules on mail voting, dealing a major blow to President Trump's attempts to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections. According to The Korea Times, only two of the six conservative justices on the nine-member panel dissented, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh stating that while Trump's plan may ultimately be legal, state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to implement the rule before the elections.

The decision was welcomed by Democratic leaders, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stating that the president's plan to make it harder to vote was "obviously unconstitutional". House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also celebrated the decision, saying "democracy won" and "far-right extremists lost".

Several states, including North Carolina, have already begun sending mail-in ballots to voters. The Supreme Court's decision effectively upholds a lower court order that had halted Trump's plan.

Brief written by urgent.news from CBS News, The Korea Times, GBC Ghana, NPR — 4 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.