The Supreme Court clears a path for President Donald Trump’s mail-ballot executive order ahead of the midterm elections, marking another key win for the administration on the high court’s emergency docket.
The emergency petition was brought to the high court last month by the DOJ and a coalition of GOP states, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit maintained a June order from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, which had blocked the implementation of the executive order. Trump’s order asked his administration to draft plans for the U.S Postal Service to deliver ballots only to verified eligible voters.
Both the Trump administration and GOP-led states argued the injunction should be lifted because the district court’s decision to block the order was premature, claiming that the Democrat-led states did not have proper standing to file the lawsuit since there was no specific policy yet in place to be challenged. The Democrat-led states told the high court that lifting the injunction would invite chaos to mail voting processes right before the hotly contested November elections.
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The Trump administration has seen significant success on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket since returning to office early last year, with a historic number of emergency requests and wins, but it has had a mixed record on the merits docket.
During the last term, the administration won cases over Trump’s firing power within the executive branch and ending temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria, along with various other immigration cases. The major losses for the administration last term came in cases over Trump’s sweeping tariffs, his birthright citizenship order, and his bid to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.