What to know about the legal fight over the USPS plan for Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting: - It's still at the Supreme Court - SCOTUS is now expected to rule sometime after 4 p.m. ET on Sept. 9 - 1st Circuit may rule before SCOTUS - Mail-in voting is still available to all eligible voters

Trump again asks Supreme Court to allow USPS plan to restrict mail-in voting

The Trump administration again asked the Supreme Court to allow the U.S. Postal Service's plan to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm elections, filing an emergency application on Sunday.

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NEW: A Supreme Court ruling on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting is now not expected until sometime after 4 p.m. ET on Sept. 9, the deadline set for legal briefs from the plan’s challengers according to the court’s public information office

NEW: The Trump administration has withdrawn its Sept. 3 request for the Supreme Court to review the U.S. Postal Service plans for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail voting for the midterm election. The move clears the deck for the Supreme Court to focus on the latest block on the USPS plan

NEW: Based on a filing deadline, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to decide sometime after 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 8 whether to lift the latest block on key parts of the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election

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ORDER entered: The court is in receipt of the federal defendants-appellants’ Emergency Motion for Stay Pending Appeal which seeks a stay pending appeal of the District Court’s September 4, 2026, preli...

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BREAKING: The Trump administration is back at the Supreme Court with a request to lift the latest block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting for the midterms. This comes after a judge in Boston replaced an earlier block that SCOTUS was reviewing

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On Day 3 of voting season for the midterm general election, mail-in voting is still available to all eligible voters. What to know about the legal fight over the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict voting by mail👇 www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...

What to know about the mail-in voting fight at the Supreme Court

A federal judge has again blocked the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to limit mail voting for the midterm election, as the legal fight drags on.

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NEW: Trump admin asks the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the latest block on key parts of the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting for the midterms. This comes after a judge in Boston replaced an earlier block that the Supreme Court was reviewing

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Docket for League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, 26-2029 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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On Day 2 of voting season for the 2026 midterm general election, mail-in voting is still available to all eligible voters. What to know about the legal fight over the USPS plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict voting by mail👇 www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...

What to know about the mail-in voting fight at the Supreme Court

A federal judge has again blocked the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to limit mail voting for the midterm election, as the legal fight drags on.

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NEW: The Trump administration says it plans to ask the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a federal judge’s latest ruling to block key parts of the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Boston has again blocked key parts of the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s attempt to limit mail voting for the midterms. The judge says her new ruling dissolves her earlier ruling, which the Trump administration just asked Supreme Court to review

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Judge Indira Talwani: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' MOTIONS FOR A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Associated Cases: 1:26-cv-11549-IT, 1:26-cv-13917-IT (MAP) (Entered: 09/04/2026)

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NEW: Rep. @robertgarcia.house.gov, top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, says the U.S. Postal Service inspector general's office has opened an investigation into USPS' efforts to carry out its plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election

NEW: Postmaster General David Steiner says although there was an "accelerated schedule" developing the U.S. Postal Service's online portal system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting for the midterms, USPS' "standards for quality, security, and system integrity were not compromised"

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NEW: Sen. @peters.senate.gov leads Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in calling for the U.S. Postal Service to immediately stop carrying out its plan for President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting for the midterms www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

NEW: Democratic Reps. @robertgarcia.house.gov, @frost.house.gov& @congressmanraja.bsky.social call on the Census Bureau to immediately rescind and provide more info about the highly unusual, unauthored document it released with claims on non-U.S. citizen voting. Their letter cites @npr.org reporting

NEW: Data advocates with The Census Project tell Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick they're concerned about the indefinite delay of new results from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey after the Trump admin banned a data privacy protection technique that the bureau had used for decades

On Day 1 of voting season for the 2026 midterm general election, mail-in voting is still available to all eligible voters. And we are still waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on the USPS plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict voting by mail. You probably have questions — a thread:

Trump asks Supreme Court to lift block on USPS plan to restrict mail voting

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.

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Dear eligible voters, These deadlines to register to vote and update registration for the midterms are less than a month away: Fri, 10/2 — SOUTH CAROLINA — in-person (10/4 online, 10/5 mail) Sat, 10/3 — U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — in-person (10/4 online) Sun, 10/4 — ALASKA Sun, 10/4 — RHODE ISLAND

How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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How long has mail-in voting been around? Historians consider the Civil War election of 1864 as the start of large-scale voting by mail in the United States. There's more mail-voting history in my 2024 report on an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum: www.npr.org/2024/08/24/n...

A new mail-voting exhibition is a reminder that its use dates back to the Civil War

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NEW: A Supreme Court ruling on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s push to restrict mail voting is not expected until sometime after 10 a.m. ET on Sept. 8, the deadline Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson set for legal briefs from the plan’s challengers www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

BREAKING: The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Your regular reminder that Election Day is the last day of voting and voting season for the 2026 midterm election officially starts Sept. 4, when North Carolina starts mailing out absentee ballots

NEW: The U.S. Postal Service plans to roll out "sometime next week" for "voluntary use" by election officials its online portal system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail voting for the midterms, according to a court filing from USPS Chief Customer and Marketing Officer Steven Monteith

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NOTICE by United States Postal Service of Filing of Supplemental Post-Hearing Submission (Attachments: (1) Decl. of S. Monteith)(Pezzi, Stephen)

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Deadlines for registering to vote or updating registration for the midterms: Fri, 9/4 — NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Fri, 10/2 — SOUTH CAROLINA — in-person (10/4 online, 10/5 mail) Sat, 10/3 — U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — in-person (10/4 online) Sun, 10/4 — ALASKA Sun, 10/4 — RHODE ISLAND npr.org/vote

How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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NEW: Democratic Reps. @robertgarcia.house.gov & @morelle.house.gov call on the U.S. Postal Service inspector general to investigate the USPS plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail voting after a whistleblower claimed it could disrupt the midterms. Their letter cites @npr.org reporting

UPDATE: The U.S. Postal Service is "carefully reviewing" concerns a whistleblower raised about its online portal system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election, a USPS spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday www.npr.org/2026/09/01/n...

USPS 'carefully reviewing' whistleblower claim on plan for Trump's mail in voting order

A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.

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NEW: @epic.org has filed the latest lawsuit to challenge the Department of Homeland Security's work on adult U.S. citizen lists for President Trump's order that's trying to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election www.courtlistener.com/docket/74728...

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COMPLAINT against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph B. Edlow, U.S. Social Security Administration, Frank Bisignano, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Departm...

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My latest @npr.org story: A whistleblower report says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting that could “derail” the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. Key parts of USPS' plan are currently blocked by a court order

Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms

A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.

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NEW: The Trump administration asks the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to pause a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election while the order is appealed www.courtlistener.com/docket/74719...

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EMERGENCY MOTION to stay injunction pending appeal filed by Appellants Frank J. Bisignano, Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, DHS, Joseph B. Edlow, Derek T. Kan, Amber McReynolds,...

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SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...

Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report

After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.

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NEW: As part of its plan for President Trump's mail-in voting order, the U.S. Postal Service says it made no changes to its new system for maintaining lists of absentee voters and ballot envelope barcodes in light of the public comments it received www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Public Inspection: Privacy Act; Systems of Records

Privacy Act; Systems of Records

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