President Donald Trump’s push to tighten election procedures before the 2026 midterm elections has hit another legal obstacle, as his administration asks the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and restore major provisions of an executive order dealing with mail-in voting and citizenship verification.
The dispute comes as the Trump administration argues that lower federal courts moved too quickly to block the president’s election integrity agenda before the agencies responsible for carrying it out had even finalized their plans.
Trump signed the executive order, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” on March 31. The order directed federal agencies to take steps aimed at strengthening voter verification procedures and establishing new rules affecting mail-in and absentee ballots.
