A federal judge expanded a nationwide injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out parts of President Trump’s executive order targeting mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling extends an earlier order that applied to roughly half the states to cover the entire country.
The order had sought to give postal officials new authority to potentially refuse delivering mail ballots in states that didn’t coordinate with federal guidelines. Talwani found the president lacks constitutional authority to regulate elections, siding with the 23 states and Washington, D.C., that originally sued over the directive.
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