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Source- Supremecourt.gov
The United States Supreme Court issued an unsigned order denying President Trump’s request to use the USPS in the November elections.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred with the ruling in a statement that said, “there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority.”
“But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections,” Kavanaugh added. “For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.”
Two of Kavanaugh’s fellow conservatives on the nine-justice court, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, dissented from the decision to “reject a stay of the injunction” against the Postal Service rule, which was issued in August of 2026..
In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court said the administration “is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the preliminary injunction issued by a federal court judge in Boston preventing the USPS RULE from being used in November’s elections nationwide.
Failure to demonstrate the “Likelihood of Success on the Merits” in a case involving injunctive relief is almost always fatal. The other most important of the 4 criteria needed for injunctive relief is Irreparable Harm.
