Todays ruling follows another ruling centred in Massachusetts and Boston against Trump’s executive orders to the Post Office creating lists of people that would NOT be able to use mail-in voting ballots and having the Homeland Security Dept having those names also… ….
The Post Office boss just told Congress he would support his boss, Trump’s order’s on the policy , but doesn’t actually have way to do it….
In March, Trump signed the order, which directed the Department of Homeland Security to create lists of citizens and the U.S. Postal Service to compile lists of voters who are eligible to receive ballots by mail. States led by Democrats and others sued, saying the president doesn’t have the power to restrict who can receive ballots.
Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts agreed with Democratic state attorneys general and blocked parts of the order. Talwani was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama.
The case is at an early stage and will continue, as will parallel litigation in federal court in Washington. Talwani’s order prevents parts of the order from being implemented ahead of this fall’s midterm elections.
Trump has spent years railing against his 2020 reelection loss and falsely alleging the election was stolen from him. He has blamed mail voting — a method he has used himself — and greatly exaggerated the frequency of voting by noncitizens. Independent reviews have found that voting by noncitizens happens infrequently.
Trump’s executive order directs the Postal Service to assemble lists of voters who can receive mail ballots and to refrain from sending mail ballots to people who do not appear on the lists. Trump’s order also tells the Department of Homeland Security to compile lists of people who are 18 or older and “confirmed to be United States citizens,” and allows states to voluntarily provide lists of voters to the Postal Service. The order does not explain how the lists would be used together, but critics fear they would be riddled with errors and prevent eligible voters from getting ballots….
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This year’s order is the second one Trump has issued on elections during his second term. Last year, he signed an order aimed at changing the deadlines for returning mail ballots and requiring people to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote. Judges blocked those portions of the 2025 order….