The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with President Donald Trump against a collection of Democrat-controlled states who sued to oppose his executive order restricting mail-in ballots.
The highest court of the land found in a partisan 5-3 ruling that the states did not have standing to sue against the president's order and overturned a lower court order to block the restrictions in 23 states.
'Only Democrat politicians and operatives would be upset about lawful efforts to secure American elections.'
"This internal directive does not regulate the States' voter registration processes," read the order from the Supreme Court. "Nor does it impinge on the States' authority 'to create and enforce a legal code' for elections."
However, the majority ruling warned that not all measures taken by the executive to implement the order will be necessarily lawful.
"On that score, time will tell," the majority said.
The court's three liberal justices dissented from the ruling.
The executive order from March directed the Department of Homeland Security to tabulate a list of citizens eligible to vote. It then called on the U.S. Postal Service to only accept ballots from people on the list.
U.S. attorneys general from several Democrat states sued to stop the order on the basis that it would disenfranchise some voters who could vote lawfully.
"Only Democrat politicians and operatives would be upset about lawful efforts to secure American elections and ensure only eligible American citizens are casting ballots," read a statement from White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson in April.
In her dissent Monday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the president of seeking to "foment chaos ahead of the November elections."
Justice Sonya Sotomayor said the ruling only "postpones" the adjudication of the president's order.
"Today's decision does not address whether the President's attempts to interfere with States' administration of the November 2026 elections are lawful," wrote Sotomayor in a dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan.
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"Nor does it suggest that the Executive Branch has any constitutional or statutory authority to implement the President's directives," they added.
New York Attorney General Letitia James agreed with Sotomayor in her own statement on the ruling.
"This decision is a painful setback, but it will not be the final word," she wrote. "The right to vote is sacred, and no administration should be allowed to put that right in jeopardy by making it harder for eligible voters to cast their ballots."
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New Jersey is one of 30 states the Department of Justice has sued for refusing to turn over voter rolls to be 'cross-checked effectively for improper registrations.'
Alito wrote that the plaintiff states and federal courts — including SCOTUS — 'bear a substantial share of the blame for the rule’s timing.'
'The plaintiff States cannot claim the timing of the rule tilts the equities in their favor when they, and courts hearing their claims, are responsible for so much of the delay,' wrote Justice Alito in dissent.
The Massachusetts judge overlooked the fact that mail-in voting is the least secure method of voting.
It is unclear how the appeal process will turn out, but the rule gives states 30 days prior to the Nov. 3 election to notify USPS if they plan to comply.
'The Order itself does not harm the States, so the District Court lacked jurisdiction to bar the Government from trying to implement it.'
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