BREAKING: Obama Judge Extends Block on President Trump’s Executive Order on Mail-In Ballots

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A federal judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump’s executive order related to the Post Office’s mail-in ballot rules.

US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, replaced the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that she granted last month.

The Trump DOJ on Thursday already asked the Supreme Court to lift Judge Talwani’s TRO.

States are already beginning to send out ballots for the midterm elections.

The Trump Administration will likely appeal Judge Talwani’s preliminary injunction.

DOJ Solicitor John Sauer argued in his emergency petition that the Postal Service possesses legal authority to regulate mail-in ballot designs.

John Sauer told the Supreme Court that the Postal Service’s new rule “imposes only modest envelope-design and addressee-information requirements for federal-election ballots sent.”

“The Rule’s regulation of the U.S. Mail—not federal elections — is plainly constitutional,” John Sauer Read Entire Article