US Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on mail voting

What the report says

The US Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to move forward, for now, with an executive order aimed at restricting mail voting. The decision, reported Monday from Washington, DC, leaves open the possibility of more lower-court challenges and does not make clear how much of the policy can be implemented before the November midterm elections.

According to Al Jazeera’s report, Trump signed the order in March. It directs federal agencies to create lists of eligible voters and says the US Postal Service should deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists. Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia sued to block the measure, arguing that election administration is largely the responsibility of states and Congress and warning that the changes could create confusion and invite partisan abuse.

A federal judge in Massachusetts had already blocked the plan, and an appeals court upheld that ruling. The Trump administration then asked the Supreme Court to intervene on procedural grounds, while a separate ruling in Washington had allowed the order to go ahead. The court’s conservative majority granted the administration’s request, while the three liberal justices dissented.

The case matters because mail voting remains widely used by voters in both parties, and states are already preparing to send ballots in the coming weeks. The report also notes that Trump has long targeted mail-in voting and has repeatedly claimed it is vulnerable to fraud, allegations widely disputed by election officials and researchers.