The Supreme Court on Sept. 14, 2026 denied the administration's application in USPS v. California to stay Judge Indira Talwani's Sept. 4 preliminary injunction against the Postal Service's August 2026 ballot-mail rule...
The First Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 10, 2026 rejected the Trump administration's bid to lift a lower-court injunction blocking the Postal Service's new mail-ballot rule ahead of the midterms. The three-judge...
On September 4, 2026, hours after Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction blocking mandatory enforcement of the Postal Service's final mail-ballot rule through the November election, the...
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction on September 4 barring the Postal Service from requiring states to comply with its new mail-ballot rule for the November 3 midterms. The rule, issued...
On the afternoon of Sept. 3, 2026, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to stay an Aug. 27 temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani that blocked the Postal Service, for 14...
A whistleblower complaint made public Sept. 1 alleges the Postal Service built the ballot-verification portal required by Trump's March executive order through a "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process." The...
The administration filed a notice of appeal Friday challenging U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's decision blocking implementation of Trump's mail-voting executive order for two weeks. The order would let the Postal...
A federal judge on Aug. 26 lifted the injunction that had blocked the most contested piece of Trump's March 2026 mail-voting executive order - using the Postal Service as the primary enforcer of mail-voter eligibility -...
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled Tuesday that the administration violated her nationwide preliminary injunction when the Postal Service finalized its mail-ballot rule. In a five-page order she wrote that...
The Supreme Court on Aug. 24 paused a June injunction by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani that had barred the federal government from applying key parts of Trump's March mail-voting executive order in 23 states and...