A divided Supreme Court allowed Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting and creating federal citizenship lists to proceed for the midterms while constitutional challenges remain unresolved.

Critics warn the plan risks voter confusion, state-power usurpation, Postal Service overload, and potential suppression, especially in Democratic areas.

Claims of widespread mail-in fraud lack evidence; Trump has linked the rules to guaranteeing Republican midterm success, raising the stakes for electing a constraining Congress.

Yesterday, in an emergency order, a divided Supreme Court allowed Trump to move forward with his plans to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections.

They didn’t express a view on whether Trump’s restrictions are constitutional. That question is now in a lower court. Presumably the high court will get to it eventually — but by then most states will have begun to send out absentee ballots, or not. Can you imagine the chaos? 

Trump’s March 31 executive order directed federal agencies to create “state citizenship lists” of people who will be 18 or older as of Election Day, which would then be sent to state election officials who administer the vote, ostensibly to purge voter registration lists of anyone who is not a citizen. The order also instructed the U.S. Postal Service not to........

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