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Hansi Lo Wang of NPR reports: “The Trump administration has again asked the Supreme Court to allow the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm elections.

In an emergency application on Sunday, lawyers for the government urged the high court to clear the way for new USPS rules on federal mail ballots to fully go into effect. For now, key parts of that plan are blocked by a preliminary injunction that a federal judge in Boston released on Sept. 4.

That ruling, by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, replaced an earlier temporary order, which the Trump administration had asked the Supreme Court last week to review…”

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