The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision allowing the Trump administration to proceed with plans to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections.
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VINCEAug 25, 2026
Multiple sources (CBS, ABC, Reuters) report that the Supreme Court's August 24, 2026 emergency order was 6-3 and let the Trump administration proceed with key parts of the mail-voting executive order. However, the passage the claim was extracted from never mentions a 6-3 vote, so the claim departs from the post's text and is rated unverifiable on extraction grounds.
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… This is a wonderful thing, not a sinister one, but of course, the left is trying to frame it as sinister. And here's what the piece says: A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with plans to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections. In emergency opinion, the justices said President Trump could proceed with implementing an executive order that he had signed, which directed the Postal Service to help decide which voters should receive mail-in ballots. Under the executive order, the Department of Homeland Security will also create lists of US. Citizens that the administration believes could be used to monitor voter rolls for non-citizens. …
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Supports. CBS News reports that in a 6-3 ruling the Supreme Court granted the administration's emergency request, allowing implementation of key portions of the mail-voting executive order before the midterms.[3]
Supports. ABC News reports the decision was 6-3 with the liberal justices dissenting, and that it let the administration implement key portions of the order, including DHS citizenship lists and USPS rulemaking.[4]
Supports. Reuters reports the Supreme Court on Monday lifted the judicial order blocking implementation of Trump's mail-ballot executive order, while other challenges remain.[1]
Context. The passage the claim was extracted from says only that a 'divided' Supreme Court allowed the plans; the specific 6-3 vote count appears in none of the post's text, so the extraction added a figure the post did not state.
Context. An AP report dated September 14, 2026 describes the Supreme Court rejecting Trump's bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterms, a later and separate development from the August order that does not reverse it.[2]
Context. Several sources stress the August order was procedural: the Court said the states' suit was premature and did not rule on the order's legality, so the decision did not settle whether the restrictions are lawful.[3][5]
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Explainer: Trump's mail-in ballot order gets Supreme Court ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Supreme Court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions ahead of midtermsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Supreme Court allows Trump to implement key parts of order restricting mail voting ahead of midtermscbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 4Supreme Court allows Trump to implement parts of his mail-in voting executive orderabcnews.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Narrow mail-in voting ruling by Supreme Court adds uncertainty to midterm elections without addressing constitutionality of Trump's executive orderkansascity.com · not rated · cited for: context
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