# Mail-In Voting Survives

> The Supreme Court blocks Trump's last-minute attempt to restrict voting by mail before the midterms.
- Title: Mail-In Voting Survives · The New Yorker | Shortify
- Summary: The Supreme Court blocks Trump's last-minute attempt to restrict voting by mail before the midterms. The Supreme Court rejected the Trump Administration's…
- Keywords: supreme court, mail-in voting, donald trump, midterm elections, voter fraud, samuel alito, clarence thomas, brett kavanaugh, u.s. postal service, voting rights, election law, politics
- Source: The New Yorker — https://newyorker.com/news/the-lede/mail-in-voting-survives
- Author: Ruth Marcus
- Published: 2026-09-15T17:28:50.589+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: supreme court, mail-in voting, donald trump, midterm elections, voter fraud, samuel alito, clarence thomas, brett kavanaugh, u.s. postal service, voting rights, election law, politics
## Supreme Court blocks voting restrictions
The Court rejected the Trump Administration's bid to impose new mail-in voting rules. Only Alito and Thomas dissented.
## Too late to change the rules
Kavanaugh said it was too late for officials to implement new requirements with midterms less than fifty days away.
## Mail voting is now the norm
Nearly one in three voters now casts their ballot by mail. Some states have virtually eliminated in-person voting.

> Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM.
## The regulation would cause chaos
States would have had to create bar-coded envelopes and upload voter lists to a non-operational federal portal.
## Millions could lose their vote
Two dozen states warned that compliance would be impossible, meaning millions of voters would be unable to vote by mail.

> In some states, compliance would be impossible ahead of the midterms, meaning that millions of voters would be unable to vote by mail.
## Questionable legal authority
The Constitution gives election authority to states and Congress, not the executive branch. The Postal Service claim was a stretch.
## No evidence of fraud
The district judge found no evidence of fraudulent mail-in voting. Even if fraud existed, the rule wouldn't stop it.

> The record continues to lack any evidence regarding fraudulent absentee or mail-in voting.
## Alito blames the states
Alito said states were responsible for the delay, even though they immediately challenged the order after it was issued.

> The plaintiff States cannot claim the timing of the rule tilts the equities in their favor when they are responsible for so much of the delay.
## The Court has red lines
Some Trump measures go too far even for this conservative Court. Eliminating birthright citizenship and emergency tariffs crossed the line.
## Trump denounces his own justices
Trump called the ruling destructive and said the three justices he appointed are merely a shell of their original selves.

> This Court will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country's history.
## Key takeaway

The Supreme Court rejected the Trump Administration's attempt to impose new mail-in voting restrictions just weeks before the midterm elections.