Trump's executive order to restrict mail-in voting is being implemented through a finalized USPS rule, which could affect the midterm elections.

Trump wants to interfere with mail voting during the upcoming midterm elections, and he’s betting the U.S. Supreme Court will let him. Over the weekend, his administration published a finalized U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rule to implement his executive order that lower courts have repeatedly called unconstitutional. The Department of Justice (DOJ) followed with legal arguments in support of that move, part of a coordinated effort to overcome court-ordered blocks to the order. If enacted, the new USPS rule would require states to redesign ballot envelopes used by millions, allowing the Postal Service to track who voted by mail. And its rushed implementation — just over two months remain before Election Day — could inject havoc into an enormously consequential vote.  Ultimately, the Supreme Court will likely have the final say on whether the administration can change how Americans cast ballots so close to the election. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/explainer-the-battle-over-trumps-bid-to-restrict-mail-voting-hits-a-pivotal-point-where-things-stand-and-what-comes-next/

The Supreme Court opened a path Monday for possible implementation of Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be put in place before the fast-approaching midterm elections. The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s order, and other similar cases have already been filed. The U.S. Postal Service laid out how it would implement the order last week, but time is running short to impose major changes. North Carolina is sending out ballots Sept. 4 overseas and to military voters, and other states will quickly follow suit in just a few weeks. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority didn’t decide the legality of Trump’s order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it. While the emergency order is not final, it does have the potential to create chaos around voting across the country, with Trump often questioning the integrity of elections and the nation’s highest court again the possible arbiter of a political controversy. “The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell,” the majority wrote in an unsigned order. The three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing that the rule “lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who seek to bring election-related challenges https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-voting-supreme-court-157afc3c195ce0a62c522da5ce904b04