WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request by the Trump administration to lift a judicial block on a U.S. Postal Service rule that established new standards for ballot envelopes and required each state to create a list of voters who were eligible to obtain mail ballots on Monday night.<\/p>\n
In an unsigned order by the Court, the justices ruled that the administration \u201cis unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the\u201d preliminary injunction that was issued by a federal court judge in Boston. The federal court judge’s block prevented the USPS rule from being used in November\u2019s elections nationwide.<\/p>\n
The court’s decision comes less than two months before a crucial Election Day in the U.S. that will determine whether the Republicans will still stay in control of Congress or not. Currently, the GOP holds a slim majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. <\/p>\n
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, concurred with the ruling in a statement that said, \u201cthere is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service\u2019s statutory authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections,\u201d Kavanaugh added. \u201cFor that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two of Kavanaugh\u2019s fellow conservatives on the court, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, dissented from the decision to reject a stay of the injunction against the Postal Service rule.<\/p>\n
Alito, in his written dissent, said that some of the plaintiffs who had sued to challenge the Postal Service\u2019s rule lacked legal standing to do so, \u201cwhile the remainder are pursuing a claim that this Court has recently called a \u2018Hail Mary pass\u2019 that \u2018rarely succeeds.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government has a strong interest in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also \u2018enhance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail\u2019 in order to better detect election fraud,\u201d Alito wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the other side of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical effects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elections. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not enough to convince me to deny the application.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request by the Trump administration to lift a judicial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848116,"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-848115","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\/848115","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=848115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}