{"id":788560,"date":"2026-07-28T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788560\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:46:07","slug":"trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-new-limits-on-mail-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788560\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow new limits on mail ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TFIMRZN3CFBPFDXWQCRW7HWOQ4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for a sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/31\/trump-mail-voting-executive-order\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/31\/trump-mail-voting-executive-order\/\">executive order<\/a> that would place major new restrictions on mail-in voting for November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OOELPU74ZNEPDILJCCSLGKPSEA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A divided panel of a Massachusetts-based appeals court last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/27\/president-donald-trump\/fa90efa2-89ba-11f1-8912-d71e69d679d7_story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/27\/president-donald-trump\/fa90efa2-89ba-11f1-8912-d71e69d679d7_story.html\">upheld<\/a> a federal judge\u2019s block on the order, finding that it would \u201csow confusion\u201d and \u201cthreaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.\u201d Judges appointed by Joe Biden and George W. Bush voted for the block, while a Trump appointee voted against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for a sweeping executive order&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-788560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}