The Supreme Court issued an order late Monday night blocking a Postal Service regulation that announced plans to decline to deliver batches of ballots.
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Strict ScrutinySep 15, 2026
Multiple sources report that the Supreme Court's brief unsigned order on Monday evening, September 14, 2026, denied the administration's emergency application and kept in place a freeze on the USPS mail-ballot rule, which would have let the Postal Service refuse delivery of non-compliant ballots.
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… And luckily, the answer for now is yes, we will, but the Court is again kind of crowning itself the ultimate decider of that critical democratic question. And just to elaborate on what Melissa was just saying, it is because of the earlier Supreme Court decision that the only thing that is blocked right now is the Postal Service regulation announcing plans to decline to deliver batches of ballots. Other portions of the lawless executive order are actually not blocked, including the portions of the executive order threatening to investigate and prosecute state and local election officials who allow individuals to vote whom the administration believes …
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Supports. NBC News reports the Supreme Court on Monday prevented the USPS regulation concerning mail-in ballots from going into effect, rejecting the administration's emergency application.[1]
Supports. Votebeat reports the Supreme Court on Monday night blocked the USPS from imposing new restrictions on mail voting, keeping in place a lower court's freeze, and that the rule would have let the Postal Service block delivery of ballots not on a prereviewed list.[3]
Supports. Government Executive and Mother Jones both date the unsigned order to Monday evening, and Jurist describes it as a per curiam denial of the DOJ's stay bid against the injunction blocking the rule.[2][4][5]
Supports. Ground News summarizes that the rule would reject all ballots in a batch if one mismatch occurred, which matches the claim's description of declining to deliver batches of ballots.[6]
Context. The order denied a stay and left the lower-court injunction in place rather than issuing an affirmative new block, and legal questions about USPS authority remain in litigation; this does not change the claim's characterization in ordinary usage.[1][6]
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6 sources: 2 tier 2, 4 not rated
- 1Supreme Court says Trump can't enforce new mail-in ballot regulationnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 2Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Mail Ballot Scheme - Mother Jonesmotherjones.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3Supreme Court blocks Trump’s proposed mail ballot ...votebeat.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Supreme Court keeps USPS from carrying out mail-in voting changes...govexec.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5US Supreme Court rejects DOJ bid to stay injunction blocking USPS mail-in ballot rulejurist.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Mail Ballot Restrictionsground.news · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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