Court blocks USPS from implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting order

This post can be found on Steve Hutkins’ Save The Post Office. He is featuring a commentary taken from the Democracy Docket as linked to in the first paragraph. As is typical, this commentary is all about Pres. Donald Tr__p who is trying his hardest to block the upcoming election or impede it in whatever fashion he can.

What is going on? Recent Court Order blocks USPS from implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting order

Democracy Docket: In the latest setback for President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, a federal court on Wednesday granted the NAACP’s request to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) implementation of his executive order against mail voting.

The court order comes a week after a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked implementation of Trump’s diktat, calling its primary provisions “legally void.” Unlike the Massachusetts decision, which applied to just the 23 Democratic-led states that sued, the new ruling covers the entire nation.

“This ruling in favor of the NAACP’s case marks another major blow to Donald Trump’s attempt to rig the election,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

“The president is failing, and the people are winning. If we all vote in November, we can put an end to his madness.”

The ruling stems from a lawsuit the NAACP brought against USPS in 2020, when mail delays threatened voters’ ability to cast ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2021 settlement required USPS to safeguard mail-in voting in future federal elections and prioritize the timely delivery of election-related mail through 2028.

The NAACP asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to enforce that stipulation last month, after USPS posted a draft rule on May 29 aimed at implementing Trump’s March executive order, which directed the Postal Service to only deliver mail ballots if states first handed over their voter lists to the administration. The civil rights group argued the proposed rule would have violated their settlement agreement with USPS.

We shall see whether Tr__p gets his way or not