The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow enforcement of President Donald Trump’s mail-voting restrictions before the November midterm elections after a federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked the policy for two weeks.
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The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Thursday, asking the justices to allow President Donald Trump’s restrictions on mail-in voting to take effect before the November midterm elections.
The emergency appeal follows a new ruling from a federal judge in Boston that temporarily blocked the administration’s policy for two weeks, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The administration is seeking to restore provisions that would prevent the U.S. Postal Service from delivering absentee ballots to voters whose names do not appear on state-approved voter rolls.
The latest filing sends the dispute back to the Supreme Court only weeks after the justices previously allowed the administration to proceed with Trump’s broader election-integrity executive order.
That earlier ruling did not resolve whether the executive order itself is lawful.
Instead, the Supreme Court concluded that the previous challenge had been brought prematurely, allowing the administration to continue implementing the policy while leaving its underlying legality unresolved.
Trump issued the executive order in March as part of his administration’s broader effort to strengthen citizenship verification and federal election procedures.
Among its provisions, the order directed the Department of Homeland Security to compile state-by-state lists of eligible voters nationwide.
The order also established new requirements affecting the handling of absentee ballots through the Postal Service.
Under the disputed policy, the Postal Service would be barred from delivering absentee ballots to individuals who are not included on state-approved voter lists.
The administration argues that the restrictions are intended to prevent ballots from being distributed to ineligible recipients and strengthen safeguards surrounding federal elections.
The new Boston ruling, however, temporarily prevents the administration from enforcing the contested provisions while the legal challenge continues.
That decision prompted the Justice Department to seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court on Thursday, asking the justices to intervene before election officials move further into preparations for the November vote.
The timing of the dispute has become increasingly significant because states are approaching deadlines for sending absentee and mail ballots to voters.
The Supreme Court must now decide whether to allow the Trump administration to enforce the restrictions while the litigation proceeds or leave the Boston judge’s temporary block in place.
The case represents the second time the administration has brought the dispute over Trump’s March election order to the high court.
Although the justices previously sided with the administration on the timing of the earlier challenge, they have yet to determine whether the president’s underlying mail-voting and voter-verification policies comply with federal law and the Constitution.
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