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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

US appeals court rejects Trump bid to implement mail-in voting restrictions

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to allow President Donald Trump's administration to ​implement a new U.S. Postal Service ​rule that would tighten mail-in voting requirements before November's congressional election, as the U.S. ​Supreme Court weighs a similar request.

The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold an injunction that a lower-court judge issued last week that has prevented USPS from enforcing its new rule, which it adopted at the ‌Republican president's direction.

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