News anchors are seen June 30 outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. On Monday, the Trump administration asked the high court to allow it to make sweeping changes to mail-in voting before the miderm elections. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
July 27 (UPI) -- The Trump administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to move forward with an extensive executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the November midterm elections.
This comes after an appeals court upheld a federal judge's block on the order Saturday, saying it would "threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters" and "sow confusion," The Washington Post reported.
Trump has pushed for new limits on voting ahead of the midterms, during which control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate are be at stake. The president has claimed, without evidence, that there are widespread issues with voter fraud benefiting Democrats, particularly in the 2020 presidential election that he lost.
The order, which Trump signed in March, would require states to hand over their eligible voter rolls to the federal government. It would mandate that the U.S. Postal Service refuse to mail ballots to those the administration determines are ineligible to vote. At one point, the postal service proposed to meet that requirement in part by only delivering ballots in states that had handed over their voter rolls.
