{"id":1025571,"date":"2026-08-26T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1025571\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:24:16","slug":"democratic-states-file-new-challenge-to-trumps-mail-ballot-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1025571\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic states file new challenge to Trump’s mail ballot directive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic-controlled states on Wednesday filed another lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order<\/a> seeking to limit mail voting in this year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The action, filed by about two dozen states against the U.S. Postal Service, marked a new phase in the high-stakes litigation just two days after the Supreme Court ruled against them<\/a> in a separate case, but did not say Trump\u2019s order was legal.<\/p>\n

The high court majority found the Democratic lawsuit was premature, but that was before the Republican administration issued a rule governing U.S. Postal Service delivery of mail ballots<\/a>. Election officials warn it will be impossible to implement<\/a> in the days before the first wave of mail ballots are sent out next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcross the country, states are already deep into preparations for the 2026 elections. Now, at the last moment, the federal government is attempting to meddle in those preparations and potentially threaten countless Americans\u2019 right to vote,\u201d New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of 25 Democratic attorneys general filing the lawsuit, said in a statement. \u201cUSPS has no authority to decide who can and cannot vote by mail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order remains barred from taking effect under a separate injunction<\/a> that the administration argues needs to be immediately rescinded in light of the high court\u2019s ruling in the previous Democratic state lawsuit. It also had succeeded in a third case filed in May in the District of Columbia, convincing a judge that it was too early to prevent its implementation of the executive order.<\/p>\n

All previous challenges were filed before the administration published its mail ballot rule Friday night. The rule says that if states want their mail ballots delivered, they will need federal approval of the design of their envelopes and must give the Postal Service a list of voters eligible to receive them.<\/p>\n

The White House has called the Postal Service plan \u201ccommonsense measures that protect the security of mail-in ballots\u201d and said the administration would continue to work to implement it to boost \u201cthe safety and security of our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Postal Service said it would not comment because of the pending lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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National Democrats on Tuesday cited the rule in asking the federal judge in the Washington case to block Trump\u2019s order after he declined to do so<\/a> last spring, saying the administration at the time had not taken concrete action. In Boston, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani also found that the administration moving forward with the mail ballot rule had violated a separate injunction she had placed on the Postal Service prohibiting it from enacting Trump\u2019s order, although she did not take any action against the government.<\/p>\n

Talwani, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, had issued the injunction against Trump\u2019s executive order in the prior Democratic state case, which is the one the Supreme Court overturned on Monday. She has yet to act on the administration\u2019s urging her to revoke her second injunction. It was issued Aug. 11 in a case against the executive order and was filed by the League of Women Voters and other voting rights groups while the Supreme Court was considering the administration\u2019s appeal of the judge\u2019s first order.<\/p>\n

Trump has long targeted mail voting, which he falsely blames for his 2020 election loss<\/a> and is disproportionately used by Democrats as a result of Trump\u2019s condemnations. Since returning to power, Trump has tried to claim authority over election rules<\/a>, saying he thinks Republicans should \u201ctake over\u201d vote counting in Democratic areas.<\/p>\n

He issued his first election executive order<\/a> just months after retaking office, attempting to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote, among other changes. He has also been pushing a sweeping election bill that has stalled in the Senate<\/a> amid opposition from Democrats and even some within his own party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic-controlled states on Wednesday filed another lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order seeking to limit mail voting…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1025572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7373,3881,11744,2731,356,84,69,90,19887,57,65236,336,362,24980,74652,50,80,369,89,61,67,132,68,93],"class_list":["post-1025571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-2026-elections","tag-ap-top-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-boston","tag-courts","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-executive-orders","tag-general-news","tag-indira-talwani","tag-lawsuits","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-letitia-james","tag-midterm-elections","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-states","tag-u-s-democratic-party","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117162742072674457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}