With just 71 days to go until the midterm elections, the Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump to move forward with his executive order that places restrictions on mail-in ballots.
🚨 In an apparent 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court paused a federal judge's order that blocked key parts of President Trump’s election executive order. A separate injunction still blocks the new USPS mail-ballot rules. pic.twitter.com/FB9RbC9un2
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) August 24, 2026
Supreme Court, 6-3, hands a provisional win to Trump over his effort to exert control over mail-in ballots, but questions remain about whether the underlying proposal is lawful, as majority concedes. Plus a nationwide injunction in a different case remains in effect, for now.
— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) August 24, 2026
Axios: President Trump can implement an executive order restricting mail-in ballots just months before the midterm elections, the US Supreme Court said on Monday.
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) August 24, 2026
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The 6-3 ruling from the Court did not decide whether or not the executive order was legal, but rather claimed that states that sought relief did so too early through speculative claims, according to SCOTUS Wire.
23 Democrat-run states and Washington, D.C. brought forth suit against the Trump administration in hopes of blocking the order to direct agencies to create lists of eligible voters and required USPS to only distribute ballots to those on the approved lists.
In July, an Obama-appointed judge approved the Democrat effort to block the executive order in the states which brought suit against the federal government.
Now, the Trump administration will race to implement the policy before the ever-nearing midterm elections take place on November 3.