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Four conservative justices at the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's plan to restrict mail-in voting ahead of Election Day, offering a measure of relief. However, the ruling leaves room for future federal attempts to interfere with state-run elections, as the justices offered limited reasoning and some conservatives indicated support for such measures.
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have a Clear Logic on Voting
September 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM CDT
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Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."
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This week, four of the six conservative justices helped to block the Trump administration’s mail-in ballot scheme from going into place this Election Day. That’s a relief, but such partisan shenanigans aren’t permanently out of the question.
First, we can’t assume federal attempts to interfere with state-run elections are forever off the table. The majority didn’t give a reason for leaving in place the lower court order that prohibited the US Postal Service from implementing the plan, backed by President Donald Trump, that would have made it harder to vote by mail. One of the conservatives, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, wrote a separate concurrence to say that his only real concern was that it’s now too close to November for a new plan to go into place lawfully. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote a dissent saying that he thought the plan was permissible.
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This week, four of the six conservative justices helped to block the Trump administration’s mail-in ballot scheme from going into place this Election Day. That’s a relief, but such partisan shenanigans aren’t permanently out of the question.
First, we can’t assume federal attempts to interfere with state-run elections are forever off the table. The majority didn’t give a reason for leaving in place the lower court order that prohibited the US Postal Service from implementing the plan, backed by President Donald Trump, that would have made it harder to vote by mail. One of the conservatives, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, wrote a separate concurrence to say that his only real concern was that it’s now too close to November for a new plan to go into place lawfully. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote a dissent saying that he thought the plan was permissible.
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