Overview
- The Supreme Court issued an unsigned emergency order Monday that lifts a lower‑court hold so parts of President Trump’s March directive on mail voting can begin to be implemented.
- The executive order asks DHS to compile state‑specific lists of eligible voters and directs the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mailed ballots only to people on those lists and to add tracking data to ballot envelopes.
- USPS published a final regulation implementing the delivery and list requirements but said it could not comment because of ongoing litigation, and separate lower‑court injunctions already block some postal rules.
- The high court explicitly left the legality of the president’s measures undecided and three liberal justices dissented, warning the decision creates uncertainty and inviting more emergency appeals.
- Practical and political limits make full nationwide changes before the Nov. 3 midterms unlikely: first overseas and military ballots leave in early September and states are expected to file new challenges that could alter enforcement.