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Posted on 08/27/2026 12:43:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
Left-wing voting organizations are racing back to Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in a renewed attempt to shut down President Donald Trump’s mail-ballot integrity rules before the November midterms.
On Wednesday, the plaintiffs filed a 29-page memorandum asking Talwani to immediately issue a temporary restraining order and then a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service’s final Ballot Mail for Federal Elections rule.
The new filing comes just hours after Talwani was forced to vacate her nationwide injunction following the Supreme Court’s August 24 ruling in Trump v. California.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday, Talwani conceded that, after Trump v. California, the League of Women Voters plaintiffs are “not likely to prevail as to ripeness” unless they rewrite their complaint now that the Postal Service has issued a final rule according to a nine-page order.
She didn’t do it happily. Reporting around the order makes clear the Supreme Court’s decision “compelled” her to toss the freeze even as she kept smearing the president’s election-integrity directive as likely to unleash “chaos.”
But the legal assault is already back.
The plaintiffs, including the League of Women Voters, U.S. Vote Foundation, OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and several affiliated organizations, claim their amended complaint has now cured the ripeness defect identified by the Supreme Court because they are challenging the Postal Service’s final rule itself, rather than merely President Trump’s executive order directing the agency to begin rulemaking.
That distinction is at the center of the new fight.
The Supreme Court stayed Talwani’s related injunction on Monday after concluding that the earlier challenge was based on speculation about what USPS might eventually do.
The Court explained that federal judges review final agency rules, not proposals or internal presidential directives telling an agency to consider a rule.
The majority then explicitly left the door open for a later lawsuit, stating: “If the Postal Service’s final rule harms the States, they may challenge that rule.”
The high court did not decide whether the final USPS rules are constitutional. Its ruling addressed the threshold questions of standing and ripeness.
Talwani acknowledged that problem Wednesday when she vacated her earlier injunction, writing that the plaintiffs were unlikely to prevail on ripeness grounds unless they amended their complaint to reflect that a final rule had been issued. Her order expressly allowed them to return with a new request for an injunction.
They wasted no time.
According to the new emergency filing, the plaintiffs argue that the August 21 final rule makes the dispute “concrete and imminent beyond any doubt.” They accuse USPS of seizing powers over election administration that belong to the states and Congress and claim the rule violates the constitutional separation of powers.
The plaintiffs also argue that the rule is ultra vires, a legal term meaning that an agency has acted beyond the authority granted to it by Congress.
“USPS issued the Final Rule without statutory authority and in violation of the separation of powers,” the organizations claim.
This is the same basic theory Talwani accepted before the Supreme Court intervened on procedural grounds.
The final USPS rule, published in the Federal Register on August 26, creates uniform preparation and tracking standards for federal ballot mail.
Under the rule:
* Outbound and return federal ballot envelopes must carry the official Election Mail logo, comply with automation standards, and include unique Intelligent Mail barcodes.
* State and local election officials must use a federal ballot-mail portal to submit the voter’s name, address, originating state, and the unique barcodes associated with the outbound and return envelopes.
* USPS employees will review outbound federal ballot mail before accepting it to determine whether the mailing complies with the preparation standards and whether the intended recipients were included on the state-submitted participation list.
* Noncompliant outbound mailings will not be accepted and will be returned to the authorized ballot mailer so the errors can be corrected and the mailing resubmitted.
The Postal Service says the safeguards will improve tracking, visibility, operational efficiency, and fraud detection. The agency also insists that state officials, not USPS, will continue deciding who is eligible to vote and who belongs on each state’s mail-ballot list.
“The Postal Service will not play any role in determining voter eligibility, maintaining voter rolls, or counting ballots,” USPS stated in the final rule.
But the left-wing plaintiffs portray the new safeguards as a threat to mail voting itself.
They argue that voters could be disenfranchised if election officials fail to place them on the state-submitted list or use envelopes that do not meet the federal specifications. They also claim the requirements will force advocacy groups to rewrite voter-education materials weeks before the election.
The filing says U.S. Vote Foundation estimates that revisions to its online tools and website will cost approximately $50,000. Other plaintiffs claim their existing voter guides and outreach materials have been rendered incomplete or obsolete.
In other words, the same organizations that have spent years defending mass mail-in voting now want one Obama-appointed judge to stop uniform federal tracking and verification rules before they can be used in the 2026 election.
The plaintiffs are now asking Talwani to immediately block USPS from implementing or enforcing the final rule while the litigation proceeds.
A hearing is scheduled for September 3.
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What these morons dont get is that the Supreme Court already made their decision, its FINAL..they can cry and b*tch but it wont change a thing. And this is why the commies the second Covid came to the US the first thing they did was pass mail in voting, why, because they knew the second they did that they could easily cheat
actually, the SC simply said that the suit wasn’t “ripe”.
Now it is ripe, and thus the new suit.
Uhmmm.....non-profits aren’t supposed to be activists in political contests. That’s why they enjoy a non-profit status.
P.S. totally off topic, but wani is the Japanese word for alligator (40 years in central FL taught me this). The word is written 鰐, where the left side means things living in the water in general (or more specifically fish), and the right side is a stylized representation of an alligator/crocodile with the beady eyes and the flowing body.
League of Women Voters is a 501(c)(4). Don’t know about the others suing. But it would be interesting to know if any of those organizations getting funds getting transferred from elsewhere (like a 501c3).
So??????
All of the "Judges" afflicted with Boasberger's Syndrome could care less.
The use of these types of tricks like judge shopping reveals all you need to know about the Democrat motive for stopping this policy.
And weren't most of the states sending out ballots and accepting vote by mail done at the direction of the Secretaries of State due to the "Covid Crisis"? rather than the legislatures?
Last I checked that little dickie bird has flown away and its time to return to regular order!
If the 19 states had no standing to challenge the 2020 presidential election, then the League of Women voters and the other plaintiffs have no standing in this case either.
Indira Talwani. Obummer-appointed judge. Massachusetts. Bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe, Law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law. I’m not surprised that the plaintiffs turned Talwani up in their judge-shopping search. She has all the far-left legal credentials they would be looking for.
What I noticed during this was that very few conservative commentators were actually telling you what the USSC ruled on. I was in the dark too until I actual listened to an honest commentator that knew what they were talking about. I have found that the talking heads on the right can be almost as dishonest as those on the left. Especially those who make it all about getting clicks.
“”””In other words, the same organizations that have spent years defending mass mail-in voting now want one Obama-appointed judge to stop uniform federal tracking and verification rules before they can be used in the 2026 election.””””
The cheaters have spent years and a whole lot of dollars to create the mess we have today. Hopefully, SCOTUS will show some backbone to put an end to the charade as SCOTUS did in 2000 with the Bush/Gore fiasco.
Actually, the League of Women Voters, is pretty good about trying to not advocate any candidate.
The poster service cannot mail letters or ballots to non citizen or illegal, just to name few reason’s. That’s mail fraud.
Yep.
I read these stories and continuously mouth the phrase I remember Rush saying a lot.
“There’s only ONE reason they would do this.”
Thought the SC already said district judges can’t issue nation-wide decrees. Seems like this district judge is about to do it again, albeit with a slightly different excuse...
They are going to try to impeach Trump again after the mid-terms anyway so he might as well make this a mountain to die on instead of just tugging his forelock ang going along with what the activist judges like her throw out there.
Except the rules are now in effect; so, maintaining the status quo while the litigation proceeds would mean that the rules stay in effect.
What other reason could there possibly be for the left to continue to try to block election integrity reform in the courts other than to continue to allow their side to cheat to win? The motive is so patently obvious and because of that it is inherently disgusting. In America of all countries.
“””The motive is so patently obvious and because of that it is inherently disgusting. “””
And the Leftists are very proud of themselves for being able to fool the public for at least the last 20 years with their scam.
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