The US Supreme Court blocked an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that ended the right for all US citizens to vote by mail.

Posted by Americast, Sep 16, 2026Checked Oct 30, 2026

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Confidence: 85%

AmericastSep 16, 2026

The US president has lashed out at the US Supreme Court for blocking his plans to end the right for all Americans to vote by mail in elections. But will Donald Trump find a different way to get around the ruling before this November’s midterm elections? Back in March, the president signed an executive order that ended the right for all US citizens to vote by email. …

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The Supreme Court did not block Trump's March 2026 executive order; on August 24, 2026 it lifted a lower-court injunction, allowing key parts to proceed, and the order did not end the right of US citizens to vote by mail. As of 2026-09-16, a separate nationwide injunction still blocked the Postal Service from implementing its mail-ballot procedures.

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What we found

Contradicts. Reuters reports that on August 24, 2026 the Supreme Court lifted one court order blocking the administration from implementing the executive order, the opposite of blocking it.[1][3]

Contradicts. NPR reports the Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that had blocked key parts of the order, and that the ruling did not weigh in on the order's legality.[4]

Contradicts. The order has so far not directly affected eligible absentee voters' option to cast ballots by mail, and the AP reports the decision allows states to keep sending mail ballots under existing processes, contradicting the claim that the order ended the right to vote by mail.[2][4]

Context. The AP headline describes the Supreme Court as rejecting Trump's bid to restrict mail ballots, and ABC reports the court allowed DHS to compile citizenship lists and the USPS rulemaking to proceed, so coverage of the August 24 ruling is mixed in framing but consistent that it did not block the order outright.[2][6]

Context. A single opinion piece reports that on September 14, 2026 the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to uphold a preliminary injunction against the new rules; this is not corroborated by the tier-1 reporting and does not change the August 24 picture of the order's status.[7]

Context. The BBC audio segment says Trump's order ended the right for all US citizens to vote by mail and that the court blocked his plans, but this is a broadcast framing of the claimant's own words rather than an independent record of the order's effect.[5]