KBJ Warns of “Kafkaesque Nightmare” After Pro-Trump Supreme Court Ruling on Mail Voting. We’ll Know Soon Enough.

Jurisprudence

Aug 24, 20267:18 PM

The nationwide order against USPS remains in place.

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Last March, Donald Trump issued another one of his executive orders trying to assert control over how the United States conducts its elections. On Monday, after a long delay, the Supreme Court let Trump take a small step forward toward implementing its rules, over the objections of the three Democrat-appointed justices. One of those rules would bar the United States Postal Service from delivering mail ballots from states that don’t jump through certain Trump-approved hoops. But for both legal and practical reasons, it is still increasingly unlikely that these rules actually can be put in place before November’s midterms, even if they are found to be legal.