{"id":848329,"date":"2026-09-15T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848329\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:30:08","slug":"supreme-court-blocks-sweeping-mail-ballot-restrictions-for-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848329\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court blocks sweeping mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BFFQO3F5CRERNDYNQMA4YFV3XQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Supreme Court on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with unprecedented new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/27\/judge-issues-new-block-trumps-sweeping-restrictions-mail-in-voting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/27\/judge-issues-new-block-trumps-sweeping-restrictions-mail-in-voting\/\">restrictions on mail ballots<\/a> for the pivotal midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XGKTOZOS2BBJTFALIYRBT3A4SM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The ruling, a major defeat for President Donald Trump, leaves intact election procedures and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/06\/trump-is-running-out-time-he-tries-restrict-mail-voting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/06\/trump-is-running-out-time-he-tries-restrict-mail-voting\/\">prohibits changes<\/a> that could have had significant impacts for millions of voters set to vote by mail in contests that will determine which party controls the House and Senate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with unprecedented new restrictions on mail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848330,"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-848329","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\/848329","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=848329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}