Published July 25, 2026 at 5:10 PM ET · Updated July 26, 2026 at 2:05 PM ET
Appeals court upholds injunction on Trump mail-in voting order
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A U.S. appeals court has upheld an injunction blocking President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting. The ruling prevents the implementation of Trump's mail-in voting order.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board sets the test: voting rules are judged by balancing voter burdens against the government's justifications, and it upheld Indiana's photo-ID law on that logic. Purcell v. Gonzalez added that court orders affecting elections risk voter confusion, so judges must weigh election-proximity harms before altering rules. The mail-in injunction applies that same balancing.
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board 553 U.S. 181 (2008)
Vote: 6-3 judgment: the six affirming Justices split 3 (Stevens lead) + 3 (Scalia concurrence… · Opinion: Justice Stevens (announced the judgment; lead/plurality opinion)
Indiana's photo-ID law (SEA 483) survives a facial constitutional challenge. Applying the Anderson/Burdick balancing framework, the lead opinion found the statute's broadly applicable burdens limited (free state ID cards; provisional-ballot cure), the record insufficient to quantify a severe burden on any class of voters, and the State's interests — deterring and detecting fraud, election modernization, and protecting public confidence in elections — sufficiently weighty even though the record contained no evidence of in-person impersonation fraud actually occurring in Indiana.
Purcell v. Gonzalez 549 U.S. 1 (2006)
Vote: Per curiam; no noted dissents (Oyez records it as unanimous) · Opinion: Per curiam (unsigned)
The Ninth Circuit's injunction pending appeal is vacated. The court of appeals gave no deference to the district court's refusal to enjoin the law and offered no reasoning of its own, and it failed to weigh the imminence of the election: 'Court orders affecting elections, especially conflicting orders, can themselves result in voter confusion and consequent incentive to remain away from the polls. As an election draws closer, that risk will increase.' Courts must weigh these election-proximity harms before altering rules on the eve of voting.
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