A federal judge late Sunday (September 13, 2026) ordered that the U.S. Postal Service not implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail balloting, adding another obstacle to the administration’s effort to rewrite election rules as the Supreme Court is poised to weigh in on the matter.
The nation’s highest court is already considering the administration’s appeal of an order by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in Boston prohibiting the Postal Service from enforcing its new rule on mail voting before this year’s midterm elections. District Judge Carl J.
Late Sunday (September 13), U.S. Nichols in Washington, D.C., handed down a similar hold on the rule, which was issued on August 21.
Mr. Talwani. Trump’s plan, the plaintiffs in Boston and Washington, D.C., refiled their lawsuits.
Because he ruled the lawsuit seeking one was brought too early, nichols in May had refused to issue an injunction. Because the administration had just issued its rule to move ahead with Mr, but.
That was the high court’s reasoning late last month when it lifted an earlier freeze by Ms.
