Mail ballot: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Postal Service from imposing new mail-ballot restrictions for this November’s midterms, leaving in place a lower-court freeze and dealing a major setback to President Donald Trump’s effort to tighten federal control over how ballots move through the mail. Mail ballot rules remain central to the … Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama absentee ballots are scheduled to begin mailing for the Nov. 3, 2026, general election around Wednesday, Sept. 9, joining a wave of states already putting ballots into the mailstream while a federal court order blocks mandatory enforcement of a new U.S. Postal Service ballot-mail rule. North Carolina began mailing general-election absentee … Read more
WASHINGTON — The USPS mail ballot rule remains blocked for the Nov. 3, 2026, midterms on Tuesday, Sept. 8, after Solicitor General D. John Sauer renewed an emergency Supreme Court bid to stay a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts. Talwani’s Sept. 4 order stops mandatory enforcement of … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Sunday again asked the Supreme Court to let a U.S. Postal Service rule take effect immediately. The renewed request puts USPS mail ballot rules at the center of a midterms fight as some states have already begun mailing ballots. According to CNN reporting on Sept. 6, 2026 (CNN’s Sept. … Read more