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Hansi Lo Wang of NPR reports: “A second federal judge has blocked the U.S. Postal Service’s plan for President Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.
In a ruling released late Sunday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump nominee, found that USPS has no authority to refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in states where election officials do not follow the mailing agency’s new requirements for voter lists and envelope barcodes.
This latest legal loss for the Trump administration comes after a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided last week to keep those requirements blocked after a judge in Boston issued the first preliminary injunction against USPS…”
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