Trump asks US Supreme Court to allow mail-in voting restrictions

Per Al Jazeera, Trump is appealing to the Supreme Court to enable mail-in ballot restrictions that a lower court previously blocked. The lower court had ruled that Trump lacked the authority to unilaterally change state election rules. A related federal appeals court has kept similar restrictions blocked across twenty-three states, setting the stage for the justices to weigh in on the limits of presidential power over voting procedures.

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