Appeals court narrows setback for Trump USPS mail-in ballot policy

A federal appeals court on Friday allowed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to move forward with proposed changes to its mail-in ballot delivery procedures while legal challenges continue, but the Trump administration rule remains stalled under a separate court order.

A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously halted a lower court order that blocked the Postal Service from restricting delivery of mail-in and absentee ballots that don’t provide eligible voter lists to the federal government.

The panel found that the Postal Service made a “strong showing that they will likely succeed” in their arguments that the proposed rule was “neither constitutionally nor prudentially ripe for review” and that it fell outside the scope of a settlement agreement previously reached with the NAACP.

The judges also ruled USPS demonstrated it would suffer “irreparable harm” if unable to finalize and implement the rule by the November........

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