Oregon asks US Supreme Court to keep block on Trump elections order 16%
By Anastasia Mason16%
8/3/2026, 5:42:48 PM
Keywords: Oregon, US Supreme Court, Trump, Elections, Executive Order, Mail In Ballots, Voter Verification
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Oregon and several other states asked the U.S.
Supreme Court on Aug. 3 to deny a request from the Trump administration and keep parts of an executive order on elections blocked.
President Donald Trump's March 31 executive order limits the U.S.
Postal Service to delivering mail-in ballots only to people on a state-provided list and directs the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security to create lists with the names of eligible voters by state.
The order is currently blocked from being implemented this election in the states that sued.
The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal on July 27 asking the Supreme Court to issue a stay pausing a lower court's order and allowing the new election changes to be carried out.
The states argued the Supreme Court should deny that stay and allow the states to carry out this year's election as usual instead of allowing the Trump administration to "rush out an unprecedented, legally indefensible voter-verification and ballot-interception program."
The changes would confuse voters and likely disenfranchise people who vote by mail, they argued.
Complying with the order would require states to modify their ballot envelopes and likely purchase new ones, retrain election workers and educate the public on the changes, the states said.
In its request for the stay, the Trump administration argued the lower court's injunction was flawed because Trump's order gives directions to other groups, like USPS and DHS, who have not finalized and carried them out yet.
The states haven't actually been harmed because "the Order itself does not affect their election processes at all, and it is entirely speculative whether and how any agency implementation may do so," the administration argued.
Both sides argue that their request should be granted because of the looming Nov. 3 election.
There is no set time for when a ruling could come on the Supreme Court's emergency docket, where justices respond to such appeals without going through the typical lengthy process of oral arguments and opinions.
The Trump administration has had success in these appeals, which often offer little insight into the reasoning behind the justices' decisions.
USATODAY reporter Maureen Groppe contributed to this report.
Anastasia Mason covers state government for the Statesman Journal.
Reach her at acmason@statesmanjournal.com or 971-208-5615.
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