US Supreme Court lifts block on mail-in ballot restrictions
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily Maverick
The US Supreme Court lifted an order that had prevented Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing a restriction on ballots sent by post. The measure comes ahead of the US midterm elections scheduled for November, according to Reuters.
The US Supreme Court lifted a block on part of Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots, according to Reuters. The decision, issued by the Court’s conservative majority by six votes to three, concerns an injunction issued in June by federal judge Indira Talwani in Boston.
Another injunction preventing a central provision of the order remains in force, leaving the fate of the text as a whole uncertain. Twenty-three states, most of them governed by Democrats, as well as the District of Columbia, had taken legal action to challenge the order ahead of the midterm elections to Congress.
