Monday, July 27th 2026 - 22:26 UTC
Trump has repeatedly maintained that mail-in voting facilitates electoral fraud
The US government on Monday filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court seeking authorization to implement President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, which lower courts have blocked. The request comes 99 days before November's midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress.
The filing followed by two days a decision by the First Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Boston, which refused by a two-to-one vote to stay the injunction issued on June 25 by a district judge. That ruling keeps the order blocked in twenty-three Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia, which sued the administration.
The order, signed in March, tasks the director of Citizenship and Immigration Services and the commissioner of the Social Security Administration with drawing up a list of eligible voters, and bars the Postal Service from sending ballots to anyone not on it. The plaintiff states argue that the Constitution reserves the conduct of elections to the states and Congress, not the executive branch, an argument accepted in the earlier rulings.
