President Trump and his multiple executive orders trying to control our elections have now been stopped, twice, by Campaign Legal Center and our clients and co-counsel.
On March 31, 2026, the president signed an executive order (EO) purporting to impose new requirements for mail-in voting, create a national database of “verified” eligible voters based on faulty information, and direct the United States Postal Service (USPS) to only send mail-in ballots to certain individuals.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) published a final rule on August 21, 2026, that detailed how USPS planned on implementing the changes to mail-in voting that President Trump directed in his March 31, 2026, executive order.
This new rule was unconstitutional and illegal.
That’s why Campaign Legal Center sued, alongside its co-counsel, Democracy Defenders Fund, on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Secure Families Initiative (SFI), Arizona Students’ Association (ASA), the city of Madison, Wisconsin, and Travis County, Texas, to prevent the new USPS rule from going into effect.
As our expert witness Tammy Patrick, an election administrator, explained in her declaration to the court, this “unprecedented” rule would have been “virtually impossible” for election officials to implement in time for the November general election.
This ruling out of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. comes after another order from a federal judge in Massachusetts who also blocked the illegal USPS rule. An appeal of that order is currently pending and awaiting decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the Massachusetts case, Campaign Legal Center also filed an amicus brief urging the Court to uphold the Massachusetts court's block on the USPS rule.
The injunction in CLC’s case, issued by the D.C. District Court, in a decision by a judge appointed by President Trump during his first term, underscores how unlawful the rule is. The president has no legal authority to change how our elections are run, and USPS has no authority to regulate mail voting — now multiple federal judges have issued rulings confirming that.
Campaign Legal Center is proud to have been part of the fight to prevent this harmful order from going into effect ahead of the midterms. Join us as we continue to work against the president’s harmful anti-voter agenda ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, and beyond.