Federal judge blocks Postal Service from carrying out Trump mail-in ballot order
Judge Emmet Sullivan's order blocks the Postal Service from carrying out Trump's order nationwide
By Anders Hagstrom Fox News
Published July 2, 2026 7:21am EDT
A federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out an executive order on mail-in ballots on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump had ordered the Postal Service to transmit ballots for states only if those states first provided a list of mail-in voters, among other requirements. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan blocks the Postal Service from implementing the order nationwide.
Sullivan argued that the order would violate the settlement agreement in an earlier 2020 lawsuit between the Postal Service and the NAACP. That agreement allowed the courts to oversee the Postal Service's actions relating to the "monitoring and timely delivery of Election Mail."
"The Proposed Rule violates paragraph 2 of the Agreement because the Postal Service cannot post documents reflecting ‘practices and policies for prioritizing the monitoring and timely delivery of Election Mail’ if its policies provide that it will not accept ‘noncompliant mailing’ and therefore will not deliver mail-in or absentee ballots to some voters, and if it will not mail ballots to any voters in a state where the state ‘declines or fails to certify a list,’" Sullivan wrote in his opinion.
Sullivan's order comes after a previous case saw nearly 25 states challenge Trump's order earlier this year. Those states were successful in blocking the Postal Service from carrying out the order in their states, but Sullivan's ruling extends nationwide.
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