A federal judge has declined to temporarily block President Trump’s executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail.
The ruling released Thursday by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump nominee based in Washington, D.C., leaves in place — at least for now — an order that tests the limits of the president’s power under the Constitution. A separate, 2025 executive order on voting was halted by courts.
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The latest executive order, issued March 31, calls for the Department of Homeland Security to work with the Social Security Administration to create lists of adult U.S. citizens in each state, and to send those lists to state election officials.
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