US judge sides with NAACP over proposed mail-in ballot restrictions
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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoBy Abby Rogers and ReutersPublished On 1 Jul 20261 Jul 2026A federal judge in the United States has blocked proposed restrictions on mail-in voting that were championed by President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday in Washington, DC, District Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with the NAACP, a civil rights organisation, in its case against the US Postal Service (USPS). Sullivan found that the restrictions would likely violate a 2021 settlement requiring expedited handling for mail-in ballots. He therefore granted the NAACP’s motion to enforce compliance with the settlement, dealing another setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the US voting landscape.
“NAACP has plausibly suggested — and the Postal Service has not disputed — that the Proposed Rule is already having a ‘real impact on present day affairs’,” Sullivan wrote in his ruling. The case revolves around a rule the Postal Service put forward in May that would require states to provide lists of absentee and mail-in voters. Ballots that do not conform to the list would be returned.
The proposed rule would also require a new envelope design for mail-in ballots, governing logos and barcode placements. Failure to comply would result in the Postal Service refusing to deliver the ballots. The NAACP argued that the proposal would run afoul of a 2021 legal settlement that forces Postal Service officials to take “extraordinary measures” to ensure timely delivery of ballot mail.
The settlement “stipulated that the Postal Service agreed ‘to prioritize monitoring and timely delivery of election mail'”, Sullivan wrote in Wednesday’s ruling.
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