Postal Service asks Supreme Court to allow Trump’s mail voting changes
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to permit the U.S. Postal Service to implement President Trump’s executive order targeting mail voting before the midterm elections. The request follows a lower-court judge’s block on the Postal Service’s final actions under the order, after the Supreme Court had lifted a block on the order itself.
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow the U.S. Postal Service to implement President Trump’s executive order targeting mail voting in time for the midterm elections.
The request comes after a judge blocked the Postal Service’s final actions under the order. The Supreme Court had previously lifted the judge’s block on the executive order itself.
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