President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Pool via AP)
A federal judge on Thursday again blocked President Donald Trump’s crackdown on mail-in ballots, in an order that came down shortly after the U.S. Postal Service said the new requirements were in effect following a protracted legal battle.
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U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling is likely to be appealed by the Trump administration, further delaying implementation of an executive order that, if allowed to move forward, would have profound implications for this year’s midterm elections. Under Trump’s order, the Postal Service would compare ballots sent through the mail to a list of eligible voters created by the federal government.
In her ruling Thursday, Talwani said plaintiff states faced a prohibitively short timeline to follow through with the rule’s demands.
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“Plaintiff States have neither time nor funds to design new mail ballots, seek approval of the new designs, order production of mail ballots, update their own election management systems, train election officials to use the USPS portal, and upload citizen data to the portal, all before the midterms,” Talwani wrote.
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