Trump's USPS mail-ballot rules hit a second roadblock as Supreme Court weighs case
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Axios · North America
A second federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service's new mail-ballot rules for the Nov. 3 midterms as the Supreme Court weighs whether to allow the restrictions in another case.Why it matters: Sunday's order adds another hurdle to the Trump administration's bid to upend mail voting. The blocked rules would allow the USPS to refuse ballots that don't clear new standards, with mail voting already underway in some states.The latest: U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., concluded Congress empowered the Postal Service to move mail, not to force states to enro
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