President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to let the Postal Service enforce new rules for mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections, a move that some states have warned would wreak havoc as they prepare to send ballots to voters in the coming days. The Justice Department filed an emergency request on Thursday to lift a Boston federal judge’s order blocking the Postal Service from mandating changes to how it handles election mail for the midterms, when Republicans will defend their slim majority in Congress. The move pulls the justices back into the high-stakes election fight as early voting gets underway.
Election officials in North Carolina are preparing to start sending the first absentee ballots to voters on Friday. More states are expected to mail ballots in the next two weeks. Democratic officials who sued have said that it’s too late for many jurisdictions to comply with a new process as they work to follow state-mandated schedules for mail-in voting before the Nov. 3 election.
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