The Supreme Court rejected a Trump administration effort to compel states to turn over voter lists under threat of refusing to deliver mail.
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All In with Chris HayesSep 19, 2026
Multiple sources report that the Supreme Court on September 14, 2026 refused to let the Trump administration's USPS mail-ballot plan proceed, a plan that would have required states to submit voter lists and barcoded envelopes or risk non-delivery of their ballots.
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… And when they say it's not partisan, that's comical because the whole thing is partisan. I mean, every court in the land that has taken up one of their election cases has rejected and repudiated them, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Within the last week, the Supreme Court rejected their ridiculous Post Office gambit to try to compel the states to turn over their voter lists, or they would refuse to deliver the mails for them. And you know, even um, Trump's very right wing tilting Supreme Court had to reject that one. Yeah, I mean, and so much the Save Act has failed. The president's effort to restrict choose who gets the vote by mail has failed. …
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Supports. CNN reports the Supreme Court on Monday rejected Trump's plan to change how mail ballots are sent, blocking a USPS procedure that would have let the Postal Service withhold potentially millions of mail ballots.[2]
Supports. USA Today reports the administration sought to require states to provide voter lists to the Postal Service to check for fraud before delivering ballots, and that the Supreme Court on Sept. 14 refused to allow the USPS to restrict mail ballots.[3]
Supports. WJCT/NPR reports that under the USPS plan following Trump's executive order, states would have had to turn over lists of voters' names and addresses and use specific barcodes to have ballots delivered, and that the Supreme Court ruled against the effort.[4]
Supports. AP reports the USPS said it would not deliver ballots from states that did not pre-clear envelope designs and submit a list of voters, which matches the 'refuse to deliver mail' threat in the claim.[1]
Context. The Supreme Court's order was a brief, unsigned ruling that the government was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the preliminary injunction; it did not decide the legality of the order itself.[2][5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1Appeals court hands Trump a loss on mail voting as Supreme Court considers his executive orderapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Supreme Court rejects Trump’s plan to limit mail-in voting in ...cnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 3Trump lost on mail ballots, but Supreme Court has given GOP ...usatoday.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4The Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail voting restrictions for this year's midtermsnews.wjct.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on mail voting restrictions ahead of midtermskrgv.com · not rated · cited for: context
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