A federal judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump’s executive order related to the Post Office’s mail-in ballot rules.
US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, replaced the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that she granted last month.
The Trump DOJ on Thursday already asked the Supreme Court to lift Judge Talwani’s TRO.
States are already beginning to send out ballots for the midterm elections.
The Trump Administration will likely appeal Judge Talwani’s preliminary injunction.
DOJ Solicitor John Sauer argued in his emergency petition that the Postal Service possesses legal authority to regulate mail-in ballot designs.
John Sauer told the Supreme Court that the Postal Service’s new rule “imposes only modest envelope-design and addressee-information requirements for federal-election ballots sent.”
“The Rule’s regulation of the U.S. Mail—not federal elections — is plainly constitutional,” John Sauer wrote. “While the States have primary authority to regulate the manner of elections, they cannot choose to use the federal mails to carry out their elections but then insist that their election-related mail is somehow exempt from the Postal Service’s rulemaking authority, conferred by Congress, to regulate envelope design and addressee information.”
Judge Talwani has been assigned to two separate lawsuits against President Trump’s mail-in ballot executive order.
The Boston-based Judge previously blocked President Trump’s March 2025 executive order, specifically his attempt to create a federal voter list.
In March 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14248: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.
Judge Talwani previously said, “The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.”
The US Supreme Court last Monday upheld part of President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots on a separate case ahead of the midterm elections.
The Supreme Court paused Judge Indira Talwani’s August 11 ruling that blocked key parts of President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots.
Norm Eisen, the Deep State hack lawyer who was the architect of the color revolution and filed hundreds of lawsuits against President Trump, celebrated.
VICTORY: a judge just SHUT DOWN Trump’s illegal mail voting rule
Seniors, veterans & military families keep their ballots. NO CHAOS before Nov 3
His order was illegal–The court’s isn’t@CampaignLegal & @DDFund_ are proud to have filed a brief for @LULAC in this win 👇 -TN pic.twitter.com/dfvFKV7eJ1
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) September 4, 2026
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