DOJ asks Supreme Court again to let it bar mail-in ballots — SkimNews
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- DOJ filed a 40-page emergency application Sunday asking the Supreme Court to let it bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending mail-in ballots to residents of states that haven't submitted eligible-voter lists based on citizenship data
- Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued the administration is likely to succeed on the merits in two pending cases — one brought by Democratic-led states against USPS and another by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts against the administration
- U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, on Friday indefinitely halted USPS's plan to implement the restriction while lower courts decide the underlying cases
- The halt landed the same day North Carolina began mailing ballots to residents — a timing point Sauer flagged in his Sunday filing as evidence of urgency
- Sunday's emergency application came one day after Sauer submitted an initial stay application to the justices
Why it matters: With North Carolina already mailing ballots and Talwani's injunction pausing the policy indefinitely, the administration's only path to enforce the mail-ballot restriction before the November midterms is for the Supreme Court to grant an emergency stay — making this filing the decisive moment on a policy that could affect how ballots reach voters in noncompliant states.
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