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Obama Judge Again Blocks Trump Mail Ballot Rule, Even After SCOTUS Decision

In a roller coaster week for the Trump administration’s rule on mail-in ballots, the same federal judge reversed by the Supreme Court imposed a 14-day temporary restraining order on the U.S. Postal Service.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston ruled Thursday night that states can’t comply with the new rules this close to an election.

Talwani, an appointee of President Barack Obama, ruled in favor of 23 blue states and the District of Columbia that sued over the mail-in voting policy in the same case that the Supreme Court decided on Monday lacked standing.

But the high court’s ruling focused on standing rather than the merits of President Donald Trump’s election-integrity executive order from March. It also came before the Postal Service published the final rule in the Federal Register on Wednesday.

The high court found the states lacked standing in part because their harm claims were too speculative. Talwani determined that with “final rules,........

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