Supreme Court frees Trump to enforce mail-in voting changes ahead of midterms

The Supreme Court cleared the way for President Trump to enforce his executive order overhauling mail-in voting ahead of November, siding with the administration and a dozen Republican-led states over a Massachusetts court that had blocked it.

The order would require states to build voter-verification lists, add tracking barcodes to ballot envelopes, and let USPS intercept mail sent to unverified voters — with federal funding withheld from states that refuse. Twenty-three Democratic-led states and D.C. had argued the changes were unworkable this close to an election and exceeded presidential authority over elections not granted by Congress.

The administration countered that the lower court jumped the gun by blocking agency action before agencies had formally acted — a defense that got notably harder to make days later when USPS quietly finalized the very rule in question.

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