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Judge Limits Challenges, Orders DHS Lists, USPS Delivery

6/19/2026

Center

Talwani Limits Challenges

District Judge Indira Talwani limited challenges to President Donald Trump’s mail-in voting order to its effect on the November 2024 elections.
The March 31 order tells Department of Homeland Security to give lists and requires Postal Service (USPS) to deliver ballots to lists.
Rights groups, 23 states and District of Columbia sued, saying order exceeds presidential authority.
The Justice Department must prioritize prosecuting officials who issue ballots to ineligible voters.

Left

Trump Administration Tracks

Voting-rights groups sued to block the rule, saying it breaches a 2021 settlement guaranteeing timely election mail.
Donald Trump’s administration filed notice that the U.S. Postal Service will create system to track mail-in and absentee ballots.
Democratic plaintiffs argue the rule would give the federal government unprecedented control over state elections.
They warn it could disenfranchise voters in the upcoming midterms.

Blindspot

Left coverage emphasised the lawsuit by the NAACP and the American Postal Workers Union citing a 2021 settlement that mandates timely delivery of election mail, a detail absent from Center coverage.
Left coverage highlighted the three-judge appellate panel’s expedited review of the challenge, which Center coverage did not mention.

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Talwani Limits Challenges

District Judge Indira Talwani limited challenges to President Donald Trump’s mail-in voting order to its effect on the November 2024 elections.
The March 31 order tells Department of Homeland Security to give lists and requires Postal Service (USPS) to deliver ballots to lists.
Rights groups, 23 states and District of Columbia sued, saying order exceeds presidential authority.
The Justice Department must prioritize prosecuting officials who issue ballots to ineligible voters.

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