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A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s latest effort to revive new U.S. Postal Service requirements for mail ballots, leaving the rules blocked as the Supreme Court considers whether they can take effect before the November midterm elections. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a …

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to give the U.S. Postal Service broad power to withhold mail ballots from voters whose information does not meet new federal requirements, escalating a major election fight less than two months before the midterms. The emergency appeal seeks immediate permission to enforce …

An anonymous federal official has warned Congress that a rushed and insufficiently tested U.S. Postal Service system could prevent large numbers of Americans from receiving mail ballots this fall if courts allow President Donald Trump’s plans for the midterm elections to take effect. The whistleblower disclosure, made public Tuesday by …

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that states may continue counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day so long as they were postmarked by the voting deadline, preserving election laws used across much of the country and rejecting a Republican-backed legal challenge. In a 5-4 decision, the justices upheld a …