Donald Trump's Justice Department has asked the US Supreme Court to revive an executive order curbing mail-in voting ahead of the 3 November midterm elections, prompting a stark warning from a leading legal commentator that the move amounts to an attempted 'power grab' over how states run their own polls.
Though the Solicitor General filed an emergency application urging the justices to scrap a lower-court injunction that had blocked Trump's order. For those not steeped in the minutiae of US election law, that injunction is currently the only thing stopping a White House directive that judges have so far read as giving the executive branch an 'unprecedented' role in overseeing voting procedures traditionally controlled by individual states.
