{"id":843975,"date":"2026-09-11T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843975\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:56:14","slug":"gop-secretaries-of-state-ask-supreme-court-to-block-trump-mail-in-ballot-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843975\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP secretaries of state ask Supreme Court to block Trump mail-in ballot rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XJSISPXNFJF4PAY2XEDMJQ5BL4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A group of Republican secretaries of state have asked the Supreme Court to prevent the Trump administration\u2019s new mail-in ballot rule from taking effect during the 2026 midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DHIADO5VM5GRBBGLDIDEQIJV3Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The officials in Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota, Georgia, New Hampshire and Kansas warned in an amicus curiae <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/26\/26A305\/423667\/20260909163513650_Election%20Officials%20Emergency%20SCOTUS%20amicus%20-%209-9-26%20FINAL.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/26\/26A305\/423667\/20260909163513650_Election%20Officials%20Emergency%20SCOTUS%20amicus%20-%209-9-26%20FINAL.pdf\">letter to the Supreme Court<\/a> on Wednesday that late implementation of the rule could disrupt the midterms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of Republican secretaries of state have asked the Supreme Court to prevent the Trump administration\u2019s new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843976,"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-843975","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\/843975","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=843975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}