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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Trump\u2019s executive order tightening\u00a0the rules around mail-in voting can be implemented ahead of the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n

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The 6-3 decision \u2014 with liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting \u2014 marks a major victory for Trump, but appears to leave room for future legal challenges that could delay the president\u2019s order.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In its ruling, the high court overturned a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing the March 31 mail-in voting order in response to a lawsuit filed by 23 Democratic-led states, who argued the directive unconstitutionally infringes on their authority to administer elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court did not rule on whether Trump\u2019s order was lawful, but determined it was too early for states to sue over it because harms must be \u201cconcrete\u201d rather than \u201cconjectural or hypothetical.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The majority further noted that federal courts are barred from adjudicating disputes dependent on \u201ccontingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, who was part of the lawsuit, vowed that the \u201cfight is far from over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision is a painful setback, but it will not be the final word,\u201d James said in a statement. \u201cThe right to vote is sacred, and no administration should be allowed to put that right in jeopardy by making it harder for eligible voters to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s executive order calls for the creation of a list of eligible voters and directed the US Postal Service (USPS) to deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists.<\/p>\n

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The USPS on Friday published a rule that would require states to provide them with lists of voters who received mail-in ballots at least 60 days before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Trump has long been a staunch critic of mail-in voting, despite using the process himself to cast an absentee ballot in last week\u2019s Florida primary election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president and his allies argue mail-in voting is susceptible to fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In dissent, Sotomayor and Kagan argued the 23 states did have standing to sue \u2018based on the credible threat that the Government will initiate investigations and prosecutions because they refuse to use the lists.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jackson, in a separate dissent, warned\u00a0that the ruling \u201cinjects additional unknowns into the already fraught pre-election period,\u201d including whether future challenges to the mail-in voting order, or other election-related matters, may come \u201ctoo late\u201d in the cycle.<\/p>\n

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