{"id":699103,"date":"2026-05-28T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=699103"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:57:19","slug":"federal-judge-allows-trump-to-implement-executive-order-on-elections-and-voting-by-mail-huge-loss-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=699103","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge allows Trump to implement executive order on elections and voting (by mail) \u2014 Huge loss for Democrats."},"content":{"rendered":"

The ruling released Thursday by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump nominee based in Washington, D.C., leaves in place \u2014 at least for now \u2014 an executive order on voting that tests the limits of the president’s power under the Constitution. A separate, 2025 executive order on voting was halted by courts.<\/h4>\n

The latest executive order, issued March 31, calls for the Department of Homeland Security to work with the Social Security Administration to create lists of adult U.S. citizens in each state, and to send those lists to state election officials. It also calls for the U.S. Postal Service \u2014 a federal agency that’s independent of a president’s administration \u2014 to come up with lists of eligible voters and to only deliver mail-in ballots to people on those lists.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/28\/nx-s1-5797889\/trump-mail-in-voting-order<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ruling released Thursday by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump nominee based in Washington, D.C., leaves in place \u2014 at least for now \u2014 an executive order on voting that tests the limits of the president’s power under … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699104,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699103\/revisions\/699104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}