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Supreme Court backs Trump’s order to curb mail ballots
The Supreme Court on Monday said that President Donald Trump could begin carrying out parts of an executive order intended to restrict mail voting, but additional legal challenges could hinder implementation of his plan before the November midterm election
Though the court framed the order as limited, its decision injects new uncertainty about the voting rules for the midterms by keeping alive the possibility that Trump will ultimately be permitted to impose policies outlined in the March order that gave the US Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented roles in the running of elections
The high court’s 10-page order, handed down in an unsigned opinion over the dissent of the court’s three liberal justices means that the Trump administration may move forward with a proposal for DHS to compile state-specific lists of people it believes are eligible to vote in the Democratic-led states that had challenged the plan in court
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