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A Boston federal judge on June 25, 2026, blocked key parts of Trump’s election executive order, including provisions that would have created a federal voter list and used USPS rules to limit mail ballots. The ruling underscores that states and Congress, not the president, set election rules.
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A Boston federal judge on June 25, 2026, blocked key parts of Trump’s election executive order, including provisions that would have created a federal voter list and used USPS rules to limit mail ballots. The ruling underscores that states and Congress, not the president, set election rules.
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A Boston federal judge on June 25, 2026, blocked key parts of Trump’s election executive order, including provisions that would have created a federal voter list and used USPS rules to limit mail ballots. The ruling underscores that states and Congress, not the president, set election rules.
A Boston federal judge blocked key mail-voting and voter-list provisions of Trump’s election executive order in the states that sued, according to the court ruling cited by Massachusetts officials.
A federal judge in Boston blocked provisions of Trump’s March 31 election order that aimed to create a federal voter list and tighten mail-ballot rules. The ruling came a day after another Boston judge made a separate permanent ruling against the order’s citizenship-proof requirement.
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