The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a legal dispute over a mail-in voting initiative proposed by the Trump administration for the upcoming midterms, upholding a lower court’s ruling that struck down the plan as unlawful. The decision follows repeated attempts by the administration to challenge the block, with conservative justices dissenting against the majority’s refusal to revisit the case. Legal challenges from advocacy groups have repeatedly stalled the effort, leaving the program’s future uncertain. The ruling marks another high-stakes clash between election policy and judicial authority ahead of the November elections.
The Supreme Court refused to clear the way for President Trump’s mail-in voting plan for the midterms on Monday over the dissents of two conservative justices, keeping intact a judge’s block that declared the plan unlawful. It’s the third time the Trump administration brought the plan to the high court’s emergency docket after groups have blocked the effort. Previously, the...
