BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Trump EO allowing USPS to withhold ballot sends in states that don’t verify voter rolls

The justices said that the over 20 Democrat-led states that sued over the move lacked standing because it was unclear how the administration will implement the order. “The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell. But the Order itself does not harm the States, so the District Court lacked jurisdiction to bar the Government from trying to implement it,” the unsigned opinion states.

The case centers around Trump’s Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections executive order, which he signed in March. It directed the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of US citizens who are eligible to vote, and the USPS to create rules that would toughen requirements for states that conduct voting by mail, including not sending ballots to those who have not been identified as eligible US citizens

The administration filed its emergency appeal in July, with Solicitor General D. John Sauer arguing that the courts did not have the power to intervene at this stage because involved agencies, such as the USPS, are still working out how to implement the directive. Sauer wrote that the injunction “is especially indefensible because the agencies are still deliberating over how (if at all) to implement the Order, yet the district court preemptively decided that whatever the agencies may choose to do will necessarily be unlawful.”