Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan Blocks USPS From Applying Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Delivery Plan

A federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from applying President Donald Trump’s plan for delivering mail-in ballots, ruling that the proposal violated an agreement reached in a 2020 lawsuit against the agency.

“The Republican president, Donald Trump, who has never acknowledged his defeat in the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden, denouncing, without basis, massive voter fraud, wants to ban mail-in voting — as well as voting machines”

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The ruling by district judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington prevented USPS from issuing national guidance tied to Trump’s March 2026 decree, and CNN en Español reported that Sullivan said the proposed rule would not deliver ballots if they did not meet the decree’s requirements.

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Sullivan’s opinion said the rule “viola el párrafo 2 del acuerdo” because USPS could not publish documents about “prácticas y políticas para priorizar el seguimiento y la entrega puntual del correo electoral” if its policies would not accept or deliver ballots for some voters.

The same CNN en Español report said the decree would require individual barcode codes on ballot envelopes for automated tracking and would order the Department of Homeland Security to use federal databases to compile lists of citizens of voting age in each state.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that states may count mail-in ballots received after Election Day if they were postmarked by Election Day, a decision that multiple outlets described as a setback for President Donald Trump.

The Washington Post framed the ruling as a narrow 5-4 decision, while Telemundo Nuevo México reported that the Court rejected a petition filed by the Republican National Committee and held that election officials may count ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they have a postmark dated before or on Election Day.

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Telemundo Nuevo México said the decision was written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and was a 6-3 split, and it described the Mississippi law as remaining in effect ahead of the November midterm elections.

The Telemundo Nuevo México report also said the ruling avoided last-minute changes to state election laws and that Mississippi’s law allows counting mail ballots mailed up to five days after Election Day, provided they were mailed before that date.

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s mail-in ballot decision, Telemundo Nuevo México reported that President Trump reacted via social media while urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require people to prove their citizenship when voting.

Spectrum Noticias quoted the Republican National Committee reaction through Joe Gruters, chairman of the RNC, saying that “Election Day should mean exactly what its name indicates,” and that the decision makes it “more imperative for Congress to pass the Save America Act.”

Spectrum Noticias also reported the Democratic National Committee response that “today democracy has prevailed,” and said the DNC is proud to have supported Mississippi to defeat the latest attack by the RNC against the right to vote.

Separately, CNN en Español tied the broader legal fight to Trump’s push for stricter voting rules, noting that the decree would give the federal government an “papel sin precedentes” in elections and could put more voter data in the hands of Trump officials.