Trump asks Supreme Court to OK sweeping changes for mail ballots

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to give the US Postal Service sweeping power to withhold delivery of mail ballots, setting up an extraordinary showdown over voting at the high court less than two months before the November midterm election.

The emergency appeal, which leapfrogged lower courts still considering the case, is the culmination of a months-long legal fight over an executive order the president signed in March that gave federal agencies an unprecedented role in elections. Voter advocacy groups and a coalition of 23 Democratic-led states challenged that order in federal court, arguing that neither the president nor the post office should have a role in choosing which mail ballots reach voters.

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周四，唐纳德·特朗普总统的政府要求最高法院赋予美国邮政局广泛的权力，以扣留邮寄选票，这使得距离 11 月中期选举不到两个月的时间里，最高法院将就投票问题展开一场非同寻常的对峙。

这项紧急上诉越过了仍在审理此案的下级法院，标志着一场持续数月的法律斗争达到高潮。这场斗争的起因是总统在三月份签署的一项行政命令，该命令赋予联邦机构在选举中前所未有的权力。选民权益倡导团体和由23个民主党执政州组成的联盟在联邦法院对该命令提出质疑，他们认为总统和邮政部门都不应该参与决定哪些邮寄选票能够送达选民手中。

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