Democracy Docket: The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court to allow President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting to go into effect before the upcoming midterms. The DOJ’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court Monday came days after a three-judge panel for the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court order blocking the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing Trump’s … Read More
Trump’s anti-mail voting order gets blocked again, this time by federal appeals court
Democracy Docket: The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court order that blocks the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from executing the president’s March executive order attacking mail voting. The decision means President Donald Trump’s sweeping assault on mail voting won’t be carried out in 23 states and the District of Columbia. … Read More
Court rejects government request to lift injunction halting Trump’s election Executive Order and USPS rule
On Saturday the First Circuit affirmed Judge Indira Talwani’s injunction blocking implementation of key provisions of President Trump’s election executive order. The court concluded that the government had failed to make the “strong showing” required for the extraordinary remedy of a stay. At this point, the government can ask for the full First Circuit to review the case, or it … Read More
Increase in rejected ballots in California primary raise concerns about USPS postmarking changes
Associated Press: Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot. California has become notorious for its ponderously slow vote counts that can drag on for weeks and sometimes longer, largely the result of multiple … Read More
Rally to save the post office in West Park, NY
Daily Freeman: WEST PARK, N.Y. — Residents will rally outside their post office Friday, as the U.S. Postal Services shuts the doors to the West Park Post Office for the last time, leaving 170 families in the lurch. Residents of Esopus hamlet were informed by mail on June 23 that the post office would close “temporarily,” at the end of … Read More
Coalition urges Senate to reject nominations to USPS Board
The Save the Post Office Coalition, a member organization with over 300 national and state organizations including many retired and active postal workers, had written to the Senate urging member to vote NO and reject the nominations of Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo to serve on the United States Postal Service Board of Governors. (The Coalition is not affiliated with … Read More
Appeals court allows USPS to move forward with Trump’s anti-mail voting order, for now
Democracy Docket: A federal appeals court Friday temporarily revived the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to move forward with a Trump-backed rule that could severely restrict mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterms. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted USPS’ request to pause an order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan that blocked the agency from implementing standards and procedures in its proposed mail … Read More
USPS says it’s not implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting order, for now
Democracy Docket: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) confirmed it is following a pair of court orders blocking it from implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. “The Postal Service is abiding by these injunctions, which are also currently under appeal,” Postmaster General David Steiner and Amber McReynolds, chairwoman of the USPS board of governors, wrote Monday in a letter … Read More
Delivering the vote: How 4 pressures are testing the Postal Service’s role in American elections
Brookings: Every election cycle, tens of millions of Americans vote without setting foot in a polling place. Their local election office mails them a paper ballot, they mark it at home, and they hand it back to a letter carrier to return. Over the past three decades this has grown from a niche convenience into how almost a third of … Read More
Trump appeals a ruling that blocks parts of his order to restrict voting by mail
NPR: An executive order by President Trump that seeks to enlist the U.S. Postal Service to limit voting by mail has hit legal hurdles. On June 25, a Boston-based judge blocked key parts of the order that, at least so far, has not directly affected mail-in voting for this year’s midterm primary elections. That ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a nominee … Read More
