Supreme Court allows Trump to implement mail-in voting restrictions
- The 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.
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