The Trump administration on Sunday petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal judge blocked new U.S. Postal Service restrictions that were imposed on mail-in ballots—with just two months to go before the midterm elections.
Noting that mail ballots have already begun to be sent out in North Carolina, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer stated that “more States will begin the mailing process as the injunction remains in place — including Alabama on September 9 and at least five States the week of September 13.”
“Once those ballot envelopes enter the mailstream, there is no retrieving them,” Sauer wrote. “And while the injunction allows the Postal Service and the States to continue taking steps to ensure that their envelopes satisfy the Rule’s requirements … each day the injunction is in place risks sowing confusion and chaos because the injunction makes those preparatory steps voluntary, rather than mandatory.”…