A federal appeals court showed up Saturday morning to stop Donald Trump from deciding who gets a mail ballot.
His March executive order told Homeland Security to build citizen lists, ordered the Postal Service to refuse mail ballots to any voter not on them, and told prosecutors to charge election officials who sent ballots to the wrong people. The court kept the order blocked through November 3, ruling it would sow confusion and cost voters their ballots, because eligible citizens are missing from the lists.
Trump’s order is now dead for the midterms in the 23 states and the District of Columbia that sued, and that effectively means the whole country. USPS told the court it cannot run one mail system for those states and another for the rest.
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