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Judge Blocks Trump Mail-In Voting Order Nationwide
A federal judge in Boston has expanded her earlier ruling to block the US Postal Service from implementing any part of Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, now covering all 50 states ahead of November's midterms. The order had aimed to tighten eligibility rules that critics say would disproportionately suppress Democratic turnout in a Congress-defining election. Judge Indira Talwani's ruling is the broadest judicial check yet on the administration's voting restrictions.
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