USPS mail-ballot rule finalized in violation of Talwani's injunction

Date

Aug 25, 2026

Kind

Court order

Status

Judicially found non-compliant

Source

axios.com ↗

Court or forum

League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, D. Mass., Judge Indira Talwani

What happened

The preliminary injunction barred "initiating or completing rulemaking" to implement the executive order's mail-ballot criteria; USPS finalized the rule anyway. Talwani held that "Defendants violated the preliminary injunction" and "cannot contend that they misunderstood the scope of the court's order," but granted none of the requested remedies, letting the rule publish while USPS remained barred from implementing it.

Publisher

Axios

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