With midterm elections weeks away, the Supreme Court quietly declined to authorize a Trump administration plan to introduce new Postal Service screening for mail-in ballots — a decision that speaks to one of democracy's oldest tensions: the competing claims of reform and stability. The justices offered no sweeping verdict on ballot integrity itself, only the recognition that elections require predictable ground beneath voters' feet. In blocking the plan, the Court reaffirmed a principle as old as democratic governance — that the machinery of voting must not be rearranged while the votes are al
Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration's Mail Ballot Screening Plan
Potential impact on mail-in voters' ability to cast ballots in midterm elections if screening plan had been implemented.