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The surprising 5-4 ruling is another legal setback to Trump’s efforts to curtail mail voting.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, as long as they are properly postmarked — a key victory for voting rights advocates and another setback to President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on absentee voting.

A few days ago, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's use of a revamped immigration database to identify noncitizens who have registered to vote across the country.

States that already ran voter rolls through the revamped federal SAVE immigration database can continue ongoing investigations of the estimated 24,000 voters it flagged.

The Trump administration's multiple investigations of the 2020 election may have more to do with 2026

The Trump administration says it’s running out of time to implement Trump’s mail voting executive order by November.

The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to quickly lift her recent ruling against major provisions of a presidential executive order on elections, arguing in an appeal that the court's action will effectively prevent the government from putting new voting restrictions in place before the November election

The Election Assistance Commission can continue much of its day-to-day work, but without commissioners it cannot make major policy decisions or update voting standards.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Washington.