The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the President from interfering with vote-by-mail elections in California and throughout the country.
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What A DayOct 22, 2026
The Supreme Court's September 2026 emergency ruling blocked the Trump administration's plan to change mail voting, and Reuters and the NYT both report it, with the ABC7 piece describing a ruling that leaves California's vote-by-mail system unchanged. The claim's 'throughout the country' scope fits the nationwide Postal Service plan, though the August stay in Trump v.
What was said
… States Postal Service and we had to go all the way up to the highest court in the land to affirm what we always knew to be true, which is that states, not the executive branch of the federal government, determine the time, place, and manner of elections. And the President had to be stopped and blocked from interfering in our election here in California and throughout the country, at least with respect to vote-by-mail, by the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest court in the land. So, it hasn't just been federal officials. We had the Riverside Sheriff, who was ordered to return 650,000 ballots by the California State Supreme Court. What went wrong there? …
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Supports. Reuters reports the Supreme Court in September rebuffed the administration's effort to restrict voting by mail.[1]
Supports. The NYT reports the Supreme Court blocked a Trump administration plan to dramatically change how Americans vote by mail, finding the government 'unlikely to succeed on the merits.'[4]
Supports. ABC7 reports the Supreme Court rejected the President's mail-in voting restrictions, leaving in place a lower-court block on the Postal Service implementing the changes, and California's vote-by-mail system unchanged.[5]
Supports. California's Attorney General describes a U.S. Supreme Court order that protects the ability to vote by mail, consistent with the claim.[2]
Contradicts. The August 2026 per curiam order in Trump v. California stayed a lower-court injunction against an election-integrity executive order, which cuts the other way, but it is a different proceeding and date from the September vote-by-mail ruling.[3][6]
Context. The claim's 'throughout the country' scope tracks the nationwide Postal Service mail-ballot plan, not a California-only order.[4][5]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Trump administration takes California ballot fight to Supreme Courtreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Following Critical U.S. Supreme Court Victory, Attorney ...oag.ca.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 326A124 Trump v. California (08/24/2026)supremecourt.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 4Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Restrictions on Voting by ...nytimes.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 5California mail-in voting unchanged after Supreme Court ...abc7news.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 6Trump v. California, 609 U.S. ___ (2026)supreme.justia.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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