A federal judge has extended her hold on a new Trump administration rule governing mail-in ballots, keeping it blocked all the way through Election Day, even after the Supreme Court had previously opened the door for the rule to move forward.
\n\nThe mail-in voting rule has faced a chaotic back and forth in the courts, with critics warning it risks throwing the midterm elections into disarray for both states and voters. The timing is notable because one state has already started sending out its midterm ballots for the fall.
\n\nTalwani's order keeps in place her block on the rule's required ballot envelope designs and its portal requirements, mirroring the limits she had already set in her earlier temporary order.
\n\nAfter the Supreme Court weighed in last month, Talwani lifted that nationwide block, which cleared a path, at least for the time being, for the Trump administration to move ahead. Just a day later, though, she put in place a narrower block lasting 14 days. It is that more limited, temporary block that she chose to extend on Friday.
\n\nSagar is a journalist with an interest primarily in geopolitics and American domestic politics. Before joining Times Now, he wrote for Republic…
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