Appeals Court Refuses To Revive Trump's Mail-Ballot Order In 23 States
The order directs Homeland Security to hand states citizenship lists and the Postal Service to redesign ballot envelopes before voting starts.
- USPS must finalize its ballot-envelope rule by July 29, DHS must send citizenship lists by September 4.
- Massachusetts alone had already spent $3 million on envelopes the new rule would make obsolete.
- Judge Dunlap dissented in part, writing the citizenship-list count causes states no real injury yet.
Why it matters: The injunction binds every agency that carries out the order, but not the president who signed it.
US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, order in Nos. 26-1774, 26-1779 ↗ · Sep 3, 20269/3/26