US judge allows Trump to implement mail-in voting executive order

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The decision comes as Trump’s Republicans battle to keep control ‌of both houses of the US Congress in the November midterm elections

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ReutersPublished: 6:02pm, 28 May 2026Updated: 6:14pm, 28 May 2026A US judge on Thursday declined ⁠to block President Donald ⁠Trump’s executive tightening rules on mail-in ⁠voting in a loss for the Democratic Party, whose lawyers argued that it could disenfranchise millions of voters.

The decision comes as Trump’s Republicans are locked in a tight battle to keep control ‌of both houses of the US Congress in the November midterm elections.

Trump has for years pushed the false claim that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voter fraud and has criticised voting by mail.Advertisement

The executive order signed by Trump on March 31 directed his administration ⁠to compile a list of confirmed US citizens eligible to vote in each state ‌and to use federal data to help state election officials verify who is eligible to vote.

It also required the US ‌Postal Service to only deliver ballots to voters on each state’s approved ⁠mail-in ballot list, and ⁠required states to preserve election-related records for five years.

In rejecting a request by plaintiffs including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New ⁠York that he issue ⁠a preliminary injunction blocking the measure, Washington-based US District Judge Carl Nichols wrote that the Democrats had brought the case too early because the government had not ‌yet produced any flawed citizenship lists and the Postal Service had not yet implemented any new rules.

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