Mail-in voting ruling: Yesterday, the Supreme Court said the Trump administration could go ahead with its efforts to cut back some mail-in voting in advance of the midterms. "In an emergency opinion, the justices said President Trump could proceed with implementing an executive order he had signed, which directed the U.S. Postal Service to help decide which voters should receive mail-in ballots. Under the executive order, the Department of Homeland Security will also create lists of U.S. citizens that the administration believes could be used to monitor voter rolls for noncitizens," reports The New York Times. "The decision means the administration can move ahead with planning for restricting the use of mail ballots even as a lower court continues to weigh the legality of Mr. Trump's executive order." The idea is that making such lists would help to cut back on fraud, which Trump alleges is widespread.
"The Supreme Court's conservative majority didn't decide the legality of Trump's order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it," reports the Associated Press. The 6–3 ruling lifted a lower-court injunction that was blocking certain parts of President Donald Trump's executive order in 23 states and Washington, D.C.
