AG Brown, Coalition Win Temporary Halt on New USPS Rule Impacting Mail-in Voting
BOSTON — In the latest development in the legal showdown involving President Donald J Trump’s Executive Order 14399 on “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections” that reforms vote-by-mail nationwide, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani Thursday evening granted a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing core parts of its newly […]
Vote-by-Mail Reforms Now in Full Effect After Federal Judge Removes Last Nationwide Injunction
BOSTON—In a legal whirlwind that would make the roadrunner blush and a day after issuing a scathing opinion against USPS for implementing its new final rule, “Ballot Mail for Federal Elections,” impacting federal elections, Judge Indira Talwani, U.S. District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, vacated her August 11 nationwide preliminary injunction in League of […]
The Trump Trap: State Election Officials Face Catch-22 Over State Citizenship Lists — Risk Federal Prosecution or Risk Disenfranchising Voters
OLYMPIA — Washington state election officials are now caught in a legal Catch-22 after the U.S. Supreme Court on August 24 stayed a lower-court injunction against President Donald J Trump’s Executive Order 14399: follow federal “State Citizenship Lists” and risk lawsuits from eligible voters, or ignore the list and risk federal investigation and prosecution by […]
Washington Vote-by-Mail remains as First Circuit rejects Trump EO stay
BOSTON — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on July 25 denied emergency motions by the Trump administration and 12 intervening states seeking to stay a lower-court injunction that blocks key provisions of a presidential executive order on mail-in ballots and citizenship verification lists. The decision leaves in […]
COMMENTARY: Hands off our ballots! Secretary Hobbs on USPS new proposed ballot mail rule
As Secretary of State of Washington, I submit the following comments in response to the United States Postal Service proposal titled Ballot Mail for Federal Elections as noticed on May 29, 2026. The Constitution is clear that authority over federal elections rests with states and Congress. My authority to administer elections is written in the […]
Executive Order on citizenship lists and mail-in voting blocked, day after USPS said ballots won’t be delivered until states provide lists
BOSTON, Mass. — U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a Barack Obama appointee, ruled Thursday, June 25, that key provisions of President Donald J Trump’s March 31, 2026, executive order on election integrity exceed presidential authority and violated the U.S. Constitution related to federal elections. The Trump administration and Department of Justice may appeal the decision […]
