🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has refused to let the Trump administration impose new USPS mail-ballot requirements just weeks before the midterms. The rules would have forced states to turn over voter information through a federal portal, get USPS approval for ballot-envelope designs and comply with new barcode requirements—all after election preparations were already underway. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed the changes should not be imposed this close to Election Day. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. For Michigan, this is a big deal: 2,232,721 Michiganders voted by mail in 2024—39% of all votes cast. Michigan and 24 other states sued within hours of the rule being issued. Lower courts blocked it, and today the Supreme Court left that injunction in place. So for the 2026 midterms, Michigan's existing vote-by-mail system remains intact while the underlying lawsuit continues. No last-minute rewrite of the rules. No new USPS requirements weeks before voters cast their ballots. “Every court that has reviewed this case has refused to allow this White House's most recent attempt to disenfranchise voters ahead of the midterms,” said Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. “With Michigan ballots being mailed out in days, I am profoundly relieved that the Supreme Court has backed our voters, our clerks, and the Constitution against the Trump administration’s manufactured chaos and confusion. Here in Michigan, we have long led the fight to protect the right to vote, and while federal interference in state-run elections will likely continue, I am confident we will succeed in protecting that right from whatever comes next.”