Democratic states sue to block postal service from carrying out Trump’s mail-in voting order – as it happened

Two dozen states and the District of Columbia filed a fresh lawsuit on Wednesday to block Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting in this year’s midterm elections. The challenge comes days after the supreme court’s conservative majority lifted one injunction from a federal judge blocking parts of the president’s order. In their new filing against the US Postal Service (USPS), the states point to concrete steps the administration has taken to carry out Trump’s directive – including a final USPS rule on ballot delivery posted Friday night. The states said that the USPS policy is part of “a broader effort” by the Trump administration “to rewrite federal election law and usurp the authority of the states and Congress”. And a reminder, that the constitution confers control over elections to states and Congress, not the executive. On Monday, the supreme court did not rule on the legality of Trump’s order, but said that the states’ litigation was premature, effectively making room for further legal challenges. A reminder that there is also a second nationwide injunction that still prevents the postal service from enforcing the order, though the justi