Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleWhy Senate Republicans are blocking Trump’s voting billThe Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow President Donald Trump to implement an executive order establishing strict new mail-in voting rules ahead of the midterm elections. Under the executive order, states must compile eligible voter lists using federal administration data, preventing the Postal Service from mailing ballots to unlisted voters. Lower federal courts had previously blocked the executive order, citing the high risk of voter disenfranchisement and administrative chaos close to Election Day. A bipartisan coalition of election officials and state attorneys general warned the ruling could cause widespread confusion and wrongly remove millions of eligible voters. Dissenting from the majority opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that the decision needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming elections. In fullSupreme Court rules Trump’s mail-in voting restrictions can stay, for now, before fast-approaching midtermsMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Supreme Court allows Trump to implement mail-in voting restrictions
Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleWhy Senate Republicans are blocking Trump’s voting billThe Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow President Donald Trump to implement an executive order establishing strict new mail-in voting rules ahead of the midterm elections. Under the executive order, states must compile eligible voter lists using federal administration data, preventing the Postal Service from mailing ballots to unlisted voters. Lower federal courts had previously blocked the executive order, citing the high risk of voter disenfranchisement and administrative chaos close to Election Day. A bipartisan coalition of election officials and state attorneys general warned the ruling could cause widespread confusion and wrongly remove millions of eligible voters. Dissenting from the majority opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that the decision needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming elections. In fullSupreme Court rules Trump’s mail-in voting restrictions can stay, for now, before fast-approaching midtermsMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
