A coalition of Democrat-led states warned the Supreme Court this week that lifting a block on President Donald Trump’s mail-voting executive order would cause “extreme” changes as states prepare to send out ballots for the midterm elections.
The group of 22 Democratic states, as well as the District of Columbia, sued the Trump administration in June in a federal court in Massachusetts and got a judge to halt the executive order, which aimed to create federal eligibility lists and restrictions on the delivery of mail ballots by calling on federal agencies to enact policies in line with those goals. A federal appeals court upheld the injunction, leading the Trump administration and a coalition of GOP-led states to petition the Supreme Court last week to lift the injunction.
