Clinton-Appointed Judge Nixes Trump's Mail-In Ballot Executive Order

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Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted the NAACP’s July 1, 2026 motion and concluded that the USPS’s June 2, 2026 Proposed Rule (which tracks President Trump’s March 31, 2026 Executive Order) would violate a 2021 settlement requiring USPS to prioritize timely delivery of Election Mail — and the court issued an accompanying order preventing USPS from implementing that Proposed Rule. The ruling prevents the Postal Service from carrying out the USPS-directed changes that would have implemented parts of the Executive Order, but Sullivan did not declare the presidential Executive Order itself void nationwide. Other courts (e.g., Judge Indira Talwani in D. Mass.) addressed and in some respects enjoined different parts of the Executive Order for certain plaintiff states. The Daily Caller headline overstates the outcome by implying Sullivan outright “nixed” the Executive Order itself rather than blocking USPS implementation of the Proposed Rule that would have put parts of the EO into effect.