The US Supreme Court on Monday afternoon denied President Trump’s emergency request to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson referred the emergency application to the Court.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred and said state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.
“For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay,” Kavanaugh wrote.
Conservative justices Alito and Thomas dissented.
“The Court incorrectly denies the Government’s application for a stay of a universal injunction that bars implementation of a final rule concerning election ballot mail,” Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joined, dissenting.
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