A federal judge in Boston expanded a nationwide block on U.S. Postal Service efforts to implement President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled the president “has no authority to regulate elections,” extending an earlier injunction that had covered roughly half the country to all 50 states.
Trump’s order would have allowed postal officials to potentially refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that declined to coordinate with the agency. Talwani found that protecting voters from confusion “heavily outweighs” the administration’s attempt to insert itself into election regulation, which the Constitution reserves to states and Congress.