Federal judge halts Trump mail voting order again as midterms loom

With midterm elections less than two weeks away, a federal judge in Boston has again paused a presidential directive that would reshape how millions of Americans cast their ballots by mail — a pause born not of final constitutional judgment, but of the simple, stubborn reality that democratic systems cannot be rebuilt overnight. The ruling reflects a tension as old as the republic itself: the reach of executive power against the sovereignty of states to govern their own elections. Nearly a third of the American electorate votes by mail, and the question of whether that right survives this lega