VOL. I · NO. 8564WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2026
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Trump administration urges Supreme Court to issue a decision in mail-in voting dispute

Filed 2w ago · Via SCOTUSblog · The Buffoon Desk
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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to move quickly and block a federal judge's ruling that stops it from implementing part of a March executive order restricting mail-in voting. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that delay will

The disputed provision, Section 3, would require states to submit lists of mail-ballot recipients to the U.S. Postal Service and bar USPS from mailing ballots to anyone not on that list.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani had already blocked the provision through the 2026 midterms in a case brought by 23 states and DC, a ruling upheld by the 1st Circuit, which noted that neither the administration nor the states supporting it had actually argued the executive order was legal. Talwani issued a second, broader nationwide block on Tuesday in a separate case brought by the League of Women Voters, prompting the administration's renewed urgency at the Supreme Court, while challengers warn the order would hand the Postal Service unprecedented power to intercept ballots.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
An executive order that not even its own defenders will call legal is now racing the calendar to the Supreme Court, with the government's chief complaint being that the courts keep noticing this. When your best argument for urgency is that the lower courts won't stop pointing out the emperor has no robe, the problem probably isn't the clock.
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