The Supreme Court Recognizes the Danger of Trump’s Election Plan

A majority of justices decided not to make the coming election needlessly more chaotic than it already is.

Drew Angerer / AFP / Getty September 14, 2026, 11:33 PM ET Share Save Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor Donald Trump will stop the United States Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots in the coming midterm elections. Tonight, the Supreme Court handed down an emergency ruling blocking the Trump administration from implementing a new policy that would have made mail-in voting so onerous as to be effectively impossible for election officials to administer. The Court’s decision spares those officials from pointless chaos —and voters from potentially widespread disenfranchisement.