The US Supreme Court has rejected an executive order from Donald Trump that aimed to restrict mail-in ballots. The March order had caused significant uncertainty for millions of Americans who vote by mail, almost a third of the country.
The executive order would have forbidden the US Postal Service from delivering mailed ballots to anyone the administration deemed ineligible. The Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Social Security Administration, was intended to create a list of these supposedly ineligible, noncitizen voters.
By Monday night, the Supreme Court restored order by rejecting the president's plan. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the mailed ballot ruling, while Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, both nominated by Trump, did not.
Following the ruling, Trump criticised the conservative justices who had opposed him on this issue and a separate ruling on tariffs in a post on Truth Social, calling mailed ballots “corrupt and out of control”.