For the second time, the Trump administration has brought its campaign to restrict mail-in voting before the Supreme Court, timing the petition to land ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The move marks a deepening of a year-long effort to reshape the mechanics of ballot access — shifting from executive pressure and state-level maneuvering into the chambers of the nation's highest judicial authority. At stake is not merely a procedural question, but the enduring tension between electoral security and democratic participation, a tension that the Court's conservative majority may now be asked t