A preliminary Supreme Court decision allowing President Donald Trump’s directive restricting mail-in voting has cast deep uncertainty over the voting process used by nearly a third of the American electorate, even if it fails to alter a single procedure ahead of the November midterms.
In its Monday ruling, the high court refrained from declaring Trump’s order lawful. Instead, it determined that Democratic-led states acted prematurely in persuading a federal judge in Boston to block the measure back in June.
