Washington Post -Ticket
sales and fundraising collapsed after President Donald Trump’s name was added
to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, even as the center’s
leaders publicly touted a financial turnaround, according to confidential
documents obtained by The Washington Post…
August 25, 2026
Kennedy-xxxxxx Center in financial trouble
The hazard of lettuce
Washington Post - Cyclospora,
a parasite spread through human feces, is the culprit. And it probably
arrived on your table via
lettuce. We don’t know all the details of the outbreak, the largest ever
tracked in the United States, but “the odds are very high that the now-recalled
Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce from Mexico is the source for many of the
illnesses,” says journalist Helena Bottemiller Evich, founder and editor in
chief of Food Fix, a popular newsletter
about food policy.
This isn’t surprising. Leafy greens are
responsible for more illnesses than any other food category, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A 2024
analysis found that lettuce was the source of something like 1.7
million cases of foodborne illnesses per year, and the economic cost was $3.7
billion. Lettuce and other vegetables that are generally eaten raw top the
charts here primarily because most pathogens that make us sick don’t survive
cooking. It’s certainly possible that your collard greens are contaminated,
too, but once you braise them with a smoked ham hock and a little vinegar,
you’ll never know.
Aiding and abetting foodborne illness may be lettuce’s
biggest offense. But it doesn’t have much else going for it, either, and
there’s a reasonably strong case that we would be better off without it.
Middle East
NPR - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent yesterday announced new
U.S. economic sanctions on Iran and what he called "its
enablers." The Trump administration has referred to the initiative as an
"economic D-Day," and Bessent has described the actions as an
"economic onslaught" targeting Iran's global financial connections.
The Treasury says it has identified networks, facilitators and financial
channels that support Iran. The U.S. says it will allow countries time to
change their ways before taking action. Here's what this
new round of sanctions could mean after nearly six months of war with
Iran — and whether this economic war can do what airstrikes and negotiations
couldn't.
The United Arab Emirates was among the first to
announce it would cut off commercial trade ties with Iran, but reactions
from other Gulf allies have so far been muted, NPR's Aya Batrawy says. She adds
that the U.S. will need more countries to align with Trump's measures against
Iran, because the president wants to crush — not just
cripple — its revenue. China is the most consequential country as it is the
largest importer of Iranian oil. China's foreign ministry condemned the latest
U.S. measures, calling them "illicit unilateral sanctions without
international legal basis." Iran's Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh last
night dismissed the U.S. actions, saying that Iran has been preparing for this
and has a two-year plan to manage the consequences.
Donald Trump
The
Hill - President Trump said Tuesday his administration is considering
changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, amid the trade war between
the U.S. and Canada. “The United States
is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake
America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any
longer,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
…. Last year, Trump signed an executive ordering renaming
the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Trade tensions between Washington and Ottawa devolved into
an all-out trade war over the weekend after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
removed negotiators from trade talks with the U.S. Carney’s move came
before a new set of tariffs from the Trump administration on Canada were set to
go into effect.
NBC
News - The Canadian government
said it was raising rates on steel products and adding a swath of new duties on
$20 billion worth of U.S. products. The
new duties of between 15% and 50% will take effect on Sept. 8, the government
said, and “will focus on sectors such as steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural
equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics, that are most impacted by U.S.
tariffs.”
State Department plans visa revocations
NBC News - The State Department is expected to announce in the coming
weeks the revocation of business and tourism visas issued between 2016 and 2026
whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to State
Department documents obtained by the Associated Press and two U.S. officials.
The move to revoke so-called B1 visas — which are generally used for business
trips — and B2 visas — are generally issued for tourism, family visits or
medical care — could affect up to 200,000 foreigners and would be the largest
single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history. The revocations would
not necessarily result in the holders’ immediate deportation, and it would
likely face legal challenges. MORE
Environment
The Guardian - A new rule proposed by the Trump administration aims to kill public notification for datacenter air pollution, public health advocates warn, and allow emission permits to be issued behind closed doors. The datacenters are often sources of nitrogen oxide, which helps form ozone, carbon monoxide and heavy metals, among other pollutants.
The Clean Air Act requires
“minor” air polluters to disclose to the public via state agencies how much
pollution their proposed project will release, but the proposed new rule from
Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would dismantle that protection
for datacenter proposals. Instead, it would make disclosure voluntary at state
and some local officials’ discretion.
Trump's ballroom
The
Congressional Insider - Trump
has repeatedly promised the ballroom will be funded entirely by private donors,
not taxpayers.
A House Democratic report says
tens of millions in taxpayer dollars have already gone toward construction.
The project’s price tag has
jumped from an early $100 million estimate to as much as $600 million.
Republican Senator Rick Scott has
questioned why any taxpayer money would be needed if private funding exists.
A contract shielding donor names
from public disclosure was only revealed after a lawsuit.
Our national parks are 110 today
Democratic
Conservation Alliance - Our national parks turn 110 today. On August 25th,
1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act into law, creating the
National Park Service with a bold mission:
“To conserve the
scenery, natural and historic objects, and wild life… and to provide for their
enjoyment in such manner… as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of
future generations.”
And since then, our parks have
been one of our country's greatest treasures. But today, Donald Trump and MAGA
Republicans — fueled by Big Oil, extremist beliefs, and corporate greed — are
dismantling that promise piece by piece.
They’re slashing park funding, dismantling protections for endangered species, letting fossil fuel giants damage raze forests, and selling off public lands to the highest bidder. We cannot let them destroy what generations before us fought to protect. Contribution
Prince Harry ‘Never Really Stopped Missing Home'
People
- Sources tell People Prince Harry “never really stopped missing home”
as he and Meghan Markle prepare for a return that once seemed unthinkable. King
Charles hopes the move could bring his sons closer, but major obstacles to a
royal reconciliation remain. Meghan is returning to the country where her royal
life unraveled — but insiders say this time will be very different
Health
NY Times - Since the degenerative brain disease known as C.T.E. was first scientifically linked to football about 20 years ago, and as hundreds of former professional football players have been diagnosed with the disease after their deaths, a haunting question has lingered:
Just how many N.F.L. players will
end up with C.T.E.? New data provides a sobering indication: At least one in
four of all the people who have played in the N.F.L. might expect to end up
with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study of hundreds of
cases over a recent six-year period.
Researchers considered every
former N.F.L. player who died from 2016 to 2021. There were 878. Some died in
their 20s, some in their 80s, most in between.
The study’s main finding was
simple math: At least 215 of those 878 former players — 24.5 percent — had
C.T.E.
The actual prevalence could be
far higher. The roughly 25 percent rate does not consider the 643 brains that
were not examined. Some of those, maybe many of them, likely had C.T.E. too.
Supreme Court joins Trump against mail-in voting
NPR - The fight over mail-in voting is not over,
NPR's Hansi Lo Wang says. The Supreme Court has not ruled on whether Trump's
order is legal. The Justices only ruled that a Boston judge acted prematurely
in June by concluding that Trump's directives exceeded presidential authority
under the Constitution. Trump has said he issued his order to prevent illegal
voting by non-U.S. citizens, despite numerous studies indicating that such
incidents are incredibly rare. Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State Jena
Griswold tells Lo Wang that there's real concern this order could create
chaos for the midterms.
The Guardian - The US Supreme Court has sided with Donald Trump in his effort to crack down on mail-in voting, though it is unclear whether or not his administration will be able to take action before the midterm elections in November. The court’s justices voted 6-3 along ideological lines to lift an injunction that a judge in Massachusetts had placed in June on an executive order issued by the president. But a second injunction remains in place, and the ruling leaves room for legal challenges.
Trump has repeatedly likened voting by mail to cheating,
despite his own use of it and overwhelming evidence that the system is secure.
In March he ordered the government to create a “state citizenship list” of
eligible voters, requiring that mail-in ballots only be delivered to people on
that list. He also directed the justice department to prioritise investigations
and prosecutions of state and local election officials who issue ballots to
people deemed ineligible to vote in federal elections.
In a blistering dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote
that the decision “needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming
midterm elections”.
The president of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, Derrick Johnson, said: “Let this ruling be a
reminder that democracy is never, ever guaranteed. We have to fight for it, we
have to fight to keep it and we have to protect the rights we do have within it
… they are trying to do everything they possibly can to make it difficult for
you to vote.”
New
Republic - Step back and remember this is all about "voter
fraud," right? You should be aware of a recent Heritage Foundation study.
The group examined every federal election from 1982 to 2024. That’s 11
presidential elections and 11 midterm elections, in which collectively well
over a billion votes were surely cast, maybe closer to two billion (for
example, about 90 million votes were cast in 1984; 155 million in 2024; midterm
turnout rates have lately been increasing). They found—and remember, this is
the Heritage Foundation—a grand total of 1,619 voting fraud convictions.
What California is up to
Gavin Newsom - California
is doing what no state has ever done before — making our own prescription drug
label to take on Big Pharma and drive down costs.
California will now be the first
state to provide all of our 10,000 public and charter schools with free emergency-use
asthma inhalers.
A year of pre-school can cost
families thousands. In California, we made it free.
Here in California we serve
nearly one billion free school meals every year.
We created free college &
career savings accounts for millions of kids.
Student achievement is up across
every grade and every student group.
Wall Street Journal reports:
"California Draws More Startup Investment Than All Other 49 States
Combined"…..
Life expectancy, infant mortality, deaths of despair, wages and uninsured rates are all worse off in red states.
August 24, 2026
Federal judge rejects 75 country visa ban
Washington
Post - The Trump administration must resume processing visas for people
from 75 countries that the government deemed likely to become a “public
charge,” a federal judge in New York ruled Friday,
curbing one of the latest efforts to restrict legal immigration pathways to the
United States. The halt
to visa processing began in January, affecting dozens of
countries in
every corner of the globe. It was meant to limit visas for people the
government said would probably rely on public benefits for their basic needs,
long a complaint from President Donald Trump.
Wildfires
NY
Times - Firefighters continued to
make progress Sunday evening as they tried to tame a wildfire that forced
thousands of people from their homes as it threatened Reno, Nev. The blaze,
known as the Hawk fire, has burned more than 15,000 acres and has not been
contained since it began Saturday in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
….About 45,000 people were
evacuated and an additional 40,000 were warned that they might need to leave at
a moment’s notice. About 10,000 customers remained without power, an
improvement after 60,000 had no electricity on Saturday.
Six people, including three
firefighters, have been injured. It is unknown how many structures the wildfire
burned down or damaged.
Officials said that the fire was
caused by a human, but did not say whether they suspected arson.
….Extreme heat, dry conditions
and strong winds have helped the Hawk fire expand. It is the second large blaze
in the area in the past three weeks.
Arid conditions have propelled an
active wildfire season across the American West this summer. In Washington
State, hundreds of homes and more than 400,000 acres burned. In Oregon, a
record 2.4 million acres have burned in 2026, according to state authorities.
Good response to the Postal Service
Marc
Elias, Democracy Docket - In my 30 years as a lawyer, I have
read countless government documents. Over the last decade, I have watched Trump
and his lawyers spin lies and frivolous arguments.
Yet, nothing quite prepared me for this sentence from a rule released by the U.S. Postal Service on Friday night: "Although ballot mail does not present precisely the same operational issues as cremated remains or replica explosives, it is unquestionably sensitive mail that raises unique operational considerations."
A mail-in ballot does not pose a health risk. It will not cause panic if exposed to the public. It's a piece of paper marked with a pen that is only dangerous to authoritarians wishing to rule rather than govern with the consent of their citizens.
Ballots do not raise "unique operational considerations" unless you are aiming to limit voting and undermine democracy. Such Orwellian reasoning is dangerous to an already fragile republic battered by years of Trump's lies.
Yet,
equating mail-in ballots to human remains and fake explosives is part of the
rationale the U.S. Postal Service offered to justify Donald Trump's
unconstitutional executive order. It is how they sought to get around the
obvious fact that Congress has not given the USPS or the president authority to
do what they're attempting here: render unmailable any ballots Trump
disapproves of.
The USPS announced all of this in a rule it released late Friday night — presumably hoping few would notice what it was up to. The new rule was crafted to effectuate Trump's March executive order, which restricts mail voting and creates a new federal voter database.
Under this new rule, the USPS will only send mail ballots to voters included on a state list. If voters aren't on the lists, they will not receive a ballot.
Earlier this summer, a federal court blocked this executive order and halted the rulemaking. In June, the court granted the motion of 24 Democratic attorneys general to invalidate this entire scheme.
After
the First Circuit upheld this victory, the Department of Justice sought
emergency relief from the Supreme Court. Their argument was not that Trump's
executive order was lawful, but rather that the states' lawsuit was premature.
The DOJ suggested that no steps had been taken to implement Trump's power grab, and perhaps the Postal Service and other federal agencies would refuse to take the actions Trump suggested. That was always a sham aimed at buying time — dismiss the lawsuit as premature, then move fast enough to later claim the process was too far along to stop.
Since the DOJ sought Supreme Court relief in July, the time left to implement this executive order has begun slipping away. Two weeks ago, the DOJ asked the Court to hurry up.
It also asked the Court to proactively block a nationwide injunction the district judge had issued in a second, related case brought by a group of nonprofits representing voters. Yet, as the week ended, the Supreme Court remained silent.
Finally, on Friday night, the USPS acted, noting that "delaying the effective date would jeopardize implementation of this rule in time for the 2026 general election, which will be held on November 3, 2026."
So much for their argument that the case wasn't ripe for adjudication.
With this step, the Postal Service has unquestionably taken the type of concrete action that satisfies the standing requirement that the DOJ told the Supreme Court was missing. The Postal Service conceded as much in its Friday notice: "The rule would require states to adjust their processes and adapt to the changes imposed by the rule, potentially incurring new costs."
There was one more twist that USPS was probably not expecting. On Sunday, the nonprofit plaintiffs filed an emergency motion with the trial court to halt the publication of the rule. If it isn't published, it cannot take effect.
The DOJ attempted to minimize this by suggesting that the rule's implementation was contingent on the DOJ winning at the Supreme Court. The judge was not amused. She ordered the DOJ to respond to the motion by 8 a.m. on Tuesday — so that she could, if necessary, block its publication scheduled for Wednesday.
We have come to expect these types of games from the Trump administration. We knew he had planned to weaponize the historically nonpartisan U.S. Postal Service to meet his own political needs.
On that score, the rule did not hide the ball. It reflects the "importance of applying additional measures concerning the use of the mail to vote in federal elections, in order to facilitate enforcement of federal law, reduce the risk of fraud, and help protect the integrity of federal elections."
Never mind that there is little risk of fraud and nothing this rule does would minimize it. After 250 years, it is sad to see the Postal Service reduced to chasing false claims of fraud and suggesting ballots pose unique challenges.
Everything Trump touches is tarnished. That now includes the USPS..
Big change in marriage
The
Congressional Insider- The Institute
for Family Studies reports a dramatic change: among men ages 20–39, the number
of unmarried now far exceeds the married, with the gap growing from 2.6 million
to 15 million over roughly 25 years. That means close to two unmarried men for
every married man in this age band. The finding tracks with a wider turn away
from early marriage. The shift is not a one-year blip. It reflects steady
changes in how Americans form families.
Pew Research Center has shown
that each new wave of young men is less likely to have married by the same age
than the prior wave. In 1960, only 16% of men ages 25–34 had never married; by
2000 it was 39%, and by 2010 it reached 52%. The U.S. Census Bureau found the
share of never-married men ages 25–34 rose from 19% in 1950 to 39% in 2000,
placing today’s levels on a long upward line.
Researchers at Bowling Green
State University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research find
unmarried adulthood has grown across the last half century. Among 18–29
year-olds, the share unmarried fell through 1960, then more than doubled to 84%
in 2024. USAFacts reports Americans are marrying later and fewer are married
than at almost any point since 1940, and most unmarried adults have never
married at all. These measures show a broad cultural and economic reset….
The Institute for Family Studies
highlights a class divide. The share of working-class men ages 25–44 who are
married fell from 73% in 1980 to 42% by 2025, based on federal survey data.
Earlier briefs tied never-married status more often to men without full-time
work, underscoring how steady jobs and wages link to marriage plans. These
facts resonate with worries on both left and right about lost opportunity and a
shrinking path to the American Dream.
Many readers blame elite-driven
policy failures for high costs, weak ladders to stable work, and frayed norms.
Others fault a culture that prizes independence but leaves families last. The
data do not assign blame. They do show a clear result: fewer young men are
marrying, and the tilt away from marriage is steep among those with less stable
work. That is a social risk both parties say they want to fix, yet Washington
has struggled to turn words into change.
Word
Peggy
Noonan, Wall Street Journal - I’m
thinking about the deeper effects of governmental corruption in the Trump era,
and why it leaves many not only indignant but uneasy. I suspect it’s doing
something to us as a people. The thoughts were prompted by a poll this week
from Reuters/Ipsos, which Reuters headlined “Most Americans Believe Trump Has
Inappropriately Profited Since Returning to Power.” It reported that 69% of
respondents see his personal business interests as influencing presidential
decisions. Two-thirds of independents, half of Republicans and 9 in 10
Democrats shared that view.
Record collapse of crime
Axios
- The U.S. is enjoying one of the steepest and most
widespread crime declines in modern history. Researchers aren't
exactly sure why — but they have theories, Axios' Russell Contreras
writes:
- Research points to factors that include
declining alcohol and drug use, tech to help catch suspects (including
drones and license-plate readers), an aging population, tougher
prosecutions and more….
The U.S. violent-crime rate plunged 9.7% in 2025, the largest annual decline since FBI
national estimates began 90 years ago.
- The murder rate fell 18.5% to 4.1 per 100,000
people, tying 1955 and 1956 for the lowest since national estimates began.
- And the decline hasn't stopped: An Axios analysis shows violent crime in big cities
fell again in the first half of 2026….
Under-the-radar demographic and health
trends are also quietly reshaping public safety:
- The proportion of young people in America is declining, shrinking the demographic most
historically linked to street crime.
- In a fascinating medical twist, the explosion of
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs (like Ozempic) has been clinically linked to decreased alcohol abuse and
improved impulse control — two major factozrs in violent offenses.
What we're watching: Pandemic-era
federal money for local crime-fighting efforts expires at the end of the year,
putting more pressure on already short-staffed police departments.
Hardest working states
WalletHub - WalletHub
today released its report on 2026’s Hardest-Working States in America…. WalletHub compared
the 50 states across ten key metrics. The data set ranges from the average
number of hours worked per week to the share of workers with multiple jobs to
the average leisure time spent per day.
|
Top 20 Hardest-Working States in America |
|
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1. South Dakota |
11. Virginia |
|
2. North Dakota |
12. Kansas |
|
3. Alaska |
13. Oklahoma |
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4. Hawaii |
14. Maryland |
|
5. Wyoming |
15. Colorado |
|
6. Nebraska |
16. Alabama |
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7. Texas |
17. Montana |
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8. New Hampshire |
18. Iowa |
|
9. Tennessee |
19. Indiana |
|
10. Georgia |
20. Wisconsin |
Key Stats
- Alaska has the longest hours worked per week,
which is 12 percent longer than in Utah, the state with the shortest.
- New York has the longest average commute time,
which is 1.8 times longer than in South Dakota, the state with the
shortest.
- Mississippi has the highest share of workers
leaving vacation time unused, which is 1.6 times higher than in Ohio,
the state with the lowest.
- Montana has the highest share of workers with multiple
jobs, which is 2.5 times higher than in Alabama, the state with the
lowest.
Democrats in Pennsylvania
Since the 2024 election, legacy
media pundits and many establishment Democrats have complained that Democrats
focused too heavily on “cultural issues” — meaning everything from abortion to
social justice, which happens to impact the most vulnerable and loyal voters in
the Democratic base. They’ve suggested this focus was ruining the Democratic
Party “brand” among swaths of the electorate, including working-class whites
and rural voters. It turns out that all it took was a couple of years of
atrocious malfeasance and incompetent Trump regime rule (including disastrous
tariffs), some dogged Democratic grassroots organizing, and a crop of
top-flight Democratic candidates to reverse the trend.
Democrat Brandon Dukes scored
a narrow victory in last week’s special election in the
Pennsylvania 12th General Assembly, an overwhelmingly White
Pittsburgh suburban district that has not sent a Democrat to the state house
since the 1990s, and that voted for Donald Trump by 18 points in 2024. The Pennsylvania Capital Star reported that the win
was “a major boon for Pennsylvania Democrats, who are hoping to build momentum
going into a series of key elections this fall.” Pennsylvania Democratic Party
Chair Eugene DePasquale told the paper:
Pennsylvanians across the
political spectrum are sick and tired of Republicans’ chaotic, corrupt, and
cost-raising agenda — and they’re ready to reject them at the polls and elect
Democrats up and down the ballot in historic fashion.
If Democrats can keep the state
house, re-elect Governor Josh Shapiro, and flip 3 state senate seats, they will have a trifecta for
the first time in decades.
Canada
NPR - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will
impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports starting Sept. 8. The
move comes after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on various Canadian
goods. Trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada collapsed shortly before
a Friday midnight deadline, triggering tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian
products.
Carney has warned that the U.S. is increasingly seen as an
unreliable economic partner, NPR's Scott Horsley says. The prime minister,
who is backed by strong public support, has vowed that Canada will fight back. The latest tariffs affect only about 5% of
U.S.-Canada trade. Horsley notes that retaliation can be effective: China’s
response to U.S. tariffs last year helped lead to a de-escalation.
Middle East
NPR - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to announce a new round of economic pressure on Iran to force it back into negotiations. President Trump has called the expected actions an “economic D-Day.” In response, Iran’s new security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, said Iran would retaliate against Trump’s economic plan in a “seismic manner.” Trump has suggested that the U.S. will increase pressure on countries that do business with Iran, NPR’s Emily Feng tells Up First. Longtime U.S. diplomat Alan Eyre is skeptical that the economic sanctions playbook will change Iran’s regime, saying the war has instead strengthened hardliners. |
ICE
The
Guardian - Plans to supply Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
officers with special gloves that can deliver electric shocks have alarmed
experts and drawn scrutiny amid some high-profile lawsuits over their use in
local correctional facilities.
In one extreme case, a
43-year-old man died after allegedly being shocked 40 times by officers with a
combination of the gloves and a Taser in a county jail in Kentucky, and the
man’s widow is suing authorities.
Earlier this month, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the parent agency of ICE, published
plans to spend up to $20m (£15m) to outfit ICE officers by March of next year
with the controversial gloves, which are also used in various police departments
and some schools.
Civil rights advocates protest
that the federal agency’s use of force during Donald Trump’s immigration
crackdowns already lacks proper oversight.
ICE “is putting these [gloves] in
the hands of an agency that has dropped its hiring standards, its training, its
background requirements in its hiring spree”, Sarah Mehta, deputy director of
government affairs in the equality division of the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), said. MORE
Postal Service issues “final order” to restrict mail-in voting
MS
NOW - The U.S. Postal Service has
issued a “final order” to restrict mail-in voting, carrying out President
Donald Trump’s executive order about two months ahead of the November midterm
elections. In its rule, the agency said
it would deliver mail ballots only in states that provide voter information to
the Trump administration. But the USPS order, issued late Friday night,
acknowledged that injunctions issued by courts in California and Massachusetts
must be lifted in order for the new rules to be implemented.
The Supreme Court could rule on
the matter at any moment.
“If the government obtains timely
relief from the injunctions, implementation immediately thereafter will provide
election officials as much time as possible before the next election to comply
with the rule’s preparation standards for Federal Ballot Mail envelopes,” the
regulations state.
The Postal Service order says
states must “prepare to submit data” to a federal portal before they can
receive mail-in and absentee ballots. Trump
has long sought to restrict mail-in voting despite frequently casting his own
ballot by mail.
In March, he signed an executive
order requiring states to provide the federal government with lists of voters
receiving ballots by mail. The Postal Service would only send mail-in and
absentee ballots to voters on the list, essentially giving the agency sweeping
power to screen ballots for eligibility.
While Trump’s executive order was
blocked by two federal courts, his administration has asked the Supreme Court
to move quickly to clear the way for the new restrictions in time for the
midterm elections
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