Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,
The Trump administration filed an emergency motion on Aug. 31 seeking a stay of a judge's ruling that blocked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing its requirements to tighten rules around mail-in voting.
The motion was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit shortly after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Aug. 31 declined to pause her temporary restraining order. That order was issued on Aug. 28 in response to lawsuits from some states and voting rights groups challenging USPS's final rule on mail-in ballots.
At the time, Talwani said the rule was likely unlawful and violated the U.S. Constitution, which gives states the authority to administer elections.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) disputed the finding in its motion, noting that the final rule is "ultimately a regulation of the U.S. mail, and a modest one at that - not a federal takeover of election administration by the Postal Service."
"The rule's improvements and modernizations of USPS's infrastructure for supporting this particularly sensitive category of mail are fully consistent with USPS's s
