Court blocks USPS from implementing Trump's anti-mail voting order

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Democracy Docket Link: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/court-blocks-usps-from-implementing-trumps-anti-mail-voting-order/

By Jim Saksa July 1, 2026

In the latest setback for President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, a federal court on Wednesday granted the NAACP’s request to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) implementation of his executive order against mail voting.

The court order comes a week after a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked implementation of Trump’s diktat, calling its primary provisions “legally void.” Unlike the Massachusetts decision, which applied to just the 23 Democratic-led states that sued, the new ruling covers the entire nation.

... The ruling stems from a lawsuit the NAACP brought against USPS in 2020, when mail delays threatened voters’ ability to cast ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2021 settlement required USPS to safeguard mail-in voting in future federal elections and prioritize the timely delivery of election-related mail through 2028.

The NAACP asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to enforce that stipulation last month, after USPS posted a draft rule on May 29 aimed at implementing Trump’s March executive order, which directed the Postal Service to only deliver mail ballots if states first handed over their voter lists to the administration. The civil rights group argued the proposed rule would have violated their settlement agreement with USPS.

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NAACP ... good on you!