{"id":737759,"date":"2026-07-01T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737759\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:44:13","slug":"us-postal-service-cannot-carry-out-trump-order-on-mail-ballot-delivery-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737759\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service cannot carry out Trump order on mail ballot delivery, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A federal judge blocked the US Postal Service<\/a> from carrying out its plan for President Donald Trump\u2019s mail ballot executive order, finding that the proposal violated a settlement in a 2020 lawsuit against the agency.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump had directed USPS<\/a> to only transmit ballots for states that submit to the agency lists of their mail-in voters and that meet other requirements for their mail voting programs. Previously, a judge in Boston had halted the Postal Service from implementing the order for two-dozen states that challenged it in court. But the new ruling from US District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who sits in Washington DC, blocks the directives nationwide.\n <\/p>\n

\n If courts let Trump\u2019s order from March 2026 stand, it would give the federal government an unprecedented role in elections<\/a> \u2014 and could put even more voter data in the hands of Trump officials searching for supposed election fraud.\n <\/p>\n

\n Sullivan\u2019s order stems from a lawsuit the NAACP originally brought against the Postal Service in 2020 because of policy changes that slowed mail delivery as the pandemic election was approaching. A 2021 settlement required the agency to publish guidance documents detailing how it would prioritize \u201cthe monitoring and timely delivery of Election Mail.\u201d Part of the settlement gave the court authority to oversee USPS\u2019 actions on this issue.\n <\/p>\n

\n Sullivan wrote in the Wednesday opinion<\/a> that, under the agency\u2019s proposed regulations for implementing the Trump executive order, ballots would not be delivered to voters if those ballots were not compliant with the executive order\u2019s requirements.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Proposed Rule violates paragraph 2 of the Agreement because the Postal Service cannot post documents reflecting \u2018practices and policies for prioritizing the monitoring and timely delivery of Election Mail\u2019 if its policies provide that it will not accept \u2018noncompliant mailing\u2019 and therefore will not deliver mail-in or absentee ballots to some voters, and if it will not mail ballots to any voters in a state where the state \u2018declines or fails to certify a list,\u2019\u201d Sullivan said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s order would also require that mail ballot envelopes have individualized barcodes for automated tracking. That policy is seen as a best practice for election administration but one that many jurisdictions would face challenges in implementing, because of the cost of such a change.\n <\/p>\n

\n It also directs the Department of Homeland Security to draw from federal databases to assemble lists of voting age citizens in each state, stoking fears that the lists will be used for overly aggressive voter purges.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis ruling in favor of the NAACP\u2019s case marks another major blow to Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to rig the election,\u201d said NAACP President Derrick Johnson. \u201cThe President is failing, and the people are winning.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to USPS for comment on the new ruling.\n <\/p>\n

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