Trump is going to the Supreme Court again in the dispute over postal voting

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Trump is going to the Supreme Court again in the dispute over postal voting

Shortly before the start of postal voting for the “midterms,” Trump wants to push through new rules. The legal dispute over this has been dragging on for a long time, and now the government is turning to the highest court again.

In the legal dispute over stricter rules for postal voting in the USA has the government of President Donald Trump went to the Supreme Court again. She asked the Supreme Court to suspend a lower court decision that has so far prevented her from implementing the new rules. Less than two months before the important midterm elections, the Trump administration is asking the US Supreme Court to make a quick decision with its urgent application. In the state of North Carolina, the first postal voting documents are scheduled to be sent out this Friday.

The Supreme Court had previously overturned another injunction against Trump’s plans – albeit for procedural reasons. He did not decide on the substantive legality of the project.

The new regulation pushed forward by the Trump administration essentially stipulates that the US Postal Service (USPS) will play a central role in controlling postal voting. States should submit the design of their envelopes for postal voting to the post office for approval. In addition, the postal service should only deliver the documents to citizens who are listed on a voter register provided by the states.

Republicans defend the plans with the argument that they want to prevent alleged election fraud. Critics suspect that Trump’s motive is that he wants to make voting by mail more difficult and thus disadvantage the Democratic Party, whose voters disproportionately vote by mail.

A federal judge stopped Trump’s plans last week with an injunction. The president’s decree is “a likely unconstitutional regulation that is virtually impossible to comply with in view of the 2026 midterm elections,” she wrote in her justification. It is also unrealistic to implement it so shortly before the election. Trump had an appeals court appealed in response to the blockade, but is now going to the highest court before its decision.

On November 3rd, around a third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives will be re-elected in the midterms. Because of the narrow majority of Republicans in both chambers of parliament, each individual mandate could decide who ultimately has power in Congress.