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The justices’ decision on Monday came after North Carolina and Alabama began mailing thousands of ballots to voters and many more states prepared to do the same in the coming days. The order followed last-minute legal wrangling and uncertainty about whether states would have to suddenly upend months of planning for the Nov. 3 midterms, when Republicans are defending their slim majority in Congress.
The Supreme Court denied the Justice Department’s request to lift a Boston federal judge’s order that barred the Postal Service from making its new mail-in ballot rules mandatory through the November contests.
In the brief, unsigned order, the court held that the Trump administration was unlikely to win the merits of its challenge to the lower court’s injunction and that officials failed to show that they had a stronger case for immediately reviving the rules ahead of the midterms. Justices
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The legal fight over whether the agency can ultimately adopt the controversial rules for future election cycles is expected to continue. A federal judge in Washington
In a short concurring opinion on Monday, Justice
Democratic state officials and voting rights advocacy groups sued, argu...