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Democratic states file new lawsuit seeking to block Trump's order limiting mail voting in midterms
pbs ^ | 08/26/2026

Posted on 08/26/2026 9:59:40 AM PDT by DFG

Democratic-controlled states on Wednesday filed another lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to limit mail voting in this year's midterm elections.

The action, filed by about two dozen states against the U.S. Postal Service, marked a new phase in the high-stakes litigation just two days after the Supreme Court ruled against them in a separate case, but did not say Trump's order was legal.

The high court majority found the Democratic lawsuit was premature, but that was before the Republican administration issued a rule governing U.S. Postal Service delivery of mail ballots. Election officials warn it will be impossible to implement in the days before the first wave of mail ballots are sent out next week.

"Across the country, states are already deep into preparations for the 2026 elections. Now, at the last moment, the federal government is attempting to meddle in those preparations and potentially threaten countless Americans' right to vote," New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of 25 Democratic attorneys general filing the lawsuit, said in a statement. "USPS has no authority to decide who can and cannot vote by mail."

Trump's executive order remains barred from taking effect under a separate injunction that the administration argues needs to be immediately rescinded in light of the high court's ruling in the previous Democratic state lawsuit. It also had succeeded in a third case filed in May in the District of Columbia, convincing a judge that it was too early to prevent its implementation of the executive order.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrattruth; fraudtruth; judgeblockstrump; mailinballots; midterms; votingtruth

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1 posted on 08/26/2026 9:59:40 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

When you see the words “mail voting”

think “electoral fraud”


2 posted on 08/26/2026 10:01:17 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DFG

he’s not limiting legal voting in any way


3 posted on 08/26/2026 10:03:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: DFG

Democrats never give up.
They just keep trying again and again and again.


4 posted on 08/26/2026 10:03:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: DFG

This is an admission of guilt by the left.


5 posted on 08/26/2026 10:05:19 AM PDT by Son-Joshua ( )
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To: DFG

After considerable research, the post office isn’t restricting mail in voting. It’s demanding bar code identification of mail in ballots to ensure that they aren’t delivering and picking up counterfeit ballots.

Why are the Democrats against that again?


6 posted on 08/26/2026 10:05:57 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: PGR88

24 states suing to allow legalized voter fraud.24.


7 posted on 08/26/2026 10:16:10 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: DFG

Imagine that...


8 posted on 08/26/2026 10:16:45 AM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

“ Why are the Democrats against that again?”
Simple answer: If the democRATS can’t cheat, they can’t win.


9 posted on 08/26/2026 10:17:03 AM PDT by 9422WMR ( )
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To: gibsonguy

which states? All democrat?


10 posted on 08/26/2026 10:17:26 AM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: DFG
THIS.

FILTH.

11 posted on 08/26/2026 10:19:18 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: DFG

Every time they get shot down, they’ll come up with another.

There must come a time when those leftist courts must be ignored.


12 posted on 08/26/2026 10:23:58 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: DFG

I’d say that the mail component of election fraud is about 70% of the total. It needs to be addressed.


13 posted on 08/26/2026 10:26:22 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: DFG
Eric Daugherty1

@EricLDaugh

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🚨 BREAKING THE ACTIVIST JUDGE HAS CONCEDED DEFEAT!

Judge Indira Talwani just *LIFTED* her egregious injunction against President Trump’s U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rules for the midterms — saying she has NO CHOICE after the Supreme Court put her in her place.

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14 posted on 08/26/2026 10:28:11 AM PDT by CFW
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“Election officials warn it will be impossible to implement in the days before the first wave of mail ballots are sent out next week. “

Yeh- no reason to be concerned ballots are going out more than two months before election day arrives.... /sarc


15 posted on 08/26/2026 10:28:56 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: ClearCase_guy

“They just keep trying again and again and again.”

My lawyer said, “You can have a clear law, a Supreme Court case and morality on your side. Still, going in front of judge is a crap shoot. It’s never better than 50/50.”


16 posted on 08/26/2026 10:32:08 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Oh, gosh! I said that out loud. I'm so sorry.)
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To: DFG

One easy simple rule about the democrats

NEVER TRUST ONE WITH ANYTHING.


17 posted on 08/26/2026 10:36:52 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Carry_Okie
There must come a time when those leftist courts must be ignored.

That, unfortunately, is exactly what the radical U.S. Left wishes to see. With that, it can argue, "You see, the MAGA crowd has ignored our system of law and order and we are entirely justified in taking back our country by any means necessary."

The leftist courts should not be ignored, but rather they should be dealt with appropriately, and that will require very few or no leftists on the USSC.

18 posted on 08/26/2026 10:39:47 AM PDT by frog in a pot (They can be a R or a D, the question is whether they are MAGA! That is the only line in the sand.)
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To: DFG

I do believe the court will allow the USPS to do this, supremacy clause and all...


19 posted on 08/26/2026 10:42:38 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: frog in a pot
The leftist courts should not be ignored, but rather they should be dealt with appropriately, and that will require very few or no leftists on the USSC.

There is no way to do that. They'll just keep generating bogus suits with injunctions that will be overturned. That process prevents a legal order from being implemented. So I'm not joining you in your damned pot. There must eventually come a time when this bogus game is interdicted or we will have surrendered the entire government nationwide to any leftist judge they can find.

20 posted on 08/26/2026 10:44:27 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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