Tag Archives: mail-in voting

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the federal government can continue implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting vote-by-mail, reaching the opposite conclusion that another appeals panel decided over the weekend. The conflict appeared to make it even more clear the issue will have to be settled by the …

The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to revive President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting vote-by-mail after a federal appeals court refused to allow the policy to take effect ahead of November’s midterm elections. The emergency appeal comes just two days after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court …

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that blocks key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling federal election procedures in nearly half the country, preventing the administration from implementing the changes ahead of November’s midterm elections. In a decision issued Saturday, the 1st U.S. Circuit …

A federal judge on Thursday declined to block President Donald Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting, dealing a setback to Democrats who argued the measure could disenfranchise millions of voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, rejected a request from …

A coalition of Democratic groups and lawmakers filed a federal lawsuit this week challenging an executive order from Donald Trump that seeks to impose new restrictions on voting by mail, setting up a major legal battle over control of U.S. elections. The complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, argues …

Trump signed an executive order targeting mail voting and voter lists, a move experts say could violate the Constitution and face swift court challenges.

President Donald Trump, who wants to ban mail-in voting, said he had the right to vote by mail-in ballot in Florida’s special election Tuesday “because I’m president of the United States.” The president’s statement at his Cabinet meeting Thursday comes as he aggressively pushes U.S. Senate Republicans to break the …

President Donald Trump cast a mail ballot in a Florida special election, according to county records, even as he continues to publicly denounce the voting method as prone to fraud. Records from Palm Beach County Elections Office show Trump’s ballot was received and counted ahead of Tuesday’s election. The records …

Conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court signaled skepticism Monday toward state laws allowing mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day, as the court heard arguments in a case that could significantly impact voting procedures nationwide. At issue is a Mississippi law permitting ballots to be counted if they …

A Pennsylvania court on Friday ruled that the state’s two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting after then-President Donald Trump began baselessly attacking it as rife with fraud during his 2020 Presidential election campaign. According to a Commonwealth Court filing released Friday, the …