Supreme Court Blocks Trump Mail-Ballot Rule, Sparking Rebuke

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's emergency request to lift a lower-court injunction blocking a new U.S. Postal Service rule for mail-in ballots, prompting a sharp public rebuke from President Donald Trump against his own appointees. The unsigned order from the high court left in place a preliminary injunction that prevents the rule from taking effect ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. The disputed rule, which originated from an executive directive Trump issued in March, would have required states to use specially designed ballot envelopes containing voter-specific barcodes and to provide voter information to the Postal Service. Ballot mail that failed to meet these requirements could have been returned to state election officials rather than delivered. Federal judges in Massachusetts and Washington had already blocked the regulations before the Supreme Court acted. In a lengthy post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump singled out Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, all of whom he nominated to the court.