Bloomberg describes Trump’s emerging strategy for wrecking the midterms.
The US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a temporary win this week by lifting a ruling that was holding back his plan to restrict voting by mail. But the decision was narrow: The court ruled only that the states challenging the push sued too soon, before the Postal Service and other agencies had laid out plans to implement Trump’s March 31 executive order. The court said nothing about the underlying claim that Trump is exceeding his constitutional authority.
With the election barely two months away, the issue is speeding back to the justices. The Postal Service recently finalized rules, but a federal judge in Boston quickly paused them and is holding a hearing Thursday to consider a long-term block. Barring intervention by a federal appeals court, Trump will need the Supreme Court to issue an emergency stay to have the mail restrictions apply this year. (A stay would put the judge’s ruling on hold, freeing the Postal Service to implement the regulations while litigation over their legality continued.)
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