The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing severe restrictions on voting by mail ahead of November’s midterms can proceed. While a nationwide injunction preventing the US Postal Service from implementing the order remains in place, election officials and experts believe Monday’s ruling could still result in chaos and voters being disenfranchised.
\n\nThe Supreme Court ruling, which split along ideological lines, paused an injunction by a federal judge in Boston that prevented the Trump administration from applying provisions of the executive order to 23 states, along with the District of Columbia.
\n\nThe court didn’t rule on the legality of the order, which seeks to impose federal oversight on elections that are, under the Constitution, controlled by states. The conservative majority ruled, rather, that the states that brought the lawsuit did not have standing because they could not show actual damage caused by the order.
\n\n“The court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the government to implement the order will necessarily be lawful,” the majority wrote in an unsigned opinion. “On that score, time will tell.”
\n\nThe executive order is predicated on the baseless allegations, pushed by Trump and…
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