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“there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority.”
Twelve Republican state attorneys general started an appeal on Thursday of a judge's order that stops the Postal Service from enforcing Trump-backed mail ballot rules. The case could decide how mail voters, including many older and homebound Americans, get ballots in 2028.
Postal unions, civic groups and Democratic secretaries of state want the Postal Service to scrap a rule that would make states hand over lists of likely mail voters. The Supreme Court paused the rule only for this year's election.
Justices heard a case over farm-worker visas on Tuesday that could limit how federal agencies punish businesses. The administration warned a loss could disrupt programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has barred immigration agents in seven counties from stopping people because they look Latino. She found evidence that agents profiled workers and turned away U.S. citizens who tried to prove who they were. The Trump administration has already appealed.
