Supreme Court sides with Trump on contested mail-in ballot executive order

Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump on mail-in ballots.

The Supreme Court handed President Trump a key victory late Monday on one of his cornerstone issues, ruling the president was allowed to enforce his election integrity executive order, which places increased restrictions on the use of mail-in ballots.

The nation's top court overruled an injunction imposed by 23 states that were challenging the executive order after the Trump administration filed an appeal in last month. The Supreme Court, however, left an injunction in place that bars the U.S. Postal Service from immediately complying with certain aspects of the executive order.

The high court's ruling on Monday won't affect mail-in ballots for the coming 2026 midterm elections, according to The Associated Press, but changes could be in store for the 2028 presidential election. In the near term, the Postal Service will be allowed to cross-check the mail-in ballots intended for distribution against a list of citizens maintained by the DHS in the hopes of not sending mail-in ballots to ineligible voters.

The Supreme Court wrote in its ruling that the executive order "directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take appropriate action to create and distribute State Citizenship Lists. This provision is an internal directive from the President to a subordinate. It imposes no obligations on the States, so they ‘suffer no concrete harm from’ it, and without concrete harm, there is no standing," Fox News reported.

Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson were the dissenters.

Trump has long argued that mail-in balloting should be reined in, particularly after the 2020 election when use of mail-in ballots surged during the pandemic, saying that the practice is more vulnerable to potential fraud. For more on the mail-in ballot restrictions, watch the video below.