President Donald Trump’s plan to tighten regulations on mail-in ballots remains blocked in the courts weeks before the midterms, after the Supreme Court on Sept. 14 declined to let a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rule implementing the plan take effect.
This situation has prompted debate over how mail voting will unfold during the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
A federal judge in Boston, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, a federal judge in the nation’s capital, and now the Supreme Court have all left in place orders stopping the USPS from enforcing a postal rule from late August that would change how states mail ballots and to whom….