US SC sides with Trump admin on mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Monday in a case over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be implemented before the fast-approaching midterm elections.

The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump's order, and other similar cases have already been filed.

The US Postal Service laid out how it would implement the order last week, but time is running short to impose major changes with some states beginning to send mail ballots to voters in just a few weeks.

The court's conservative majority didn't decide the legality of Trump's order, instead ruling that the states did not have the legal right to challenge it.

"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," the majority wrote in an unsigned order.

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