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WASHINGTON – A U.S. appeals court rejected the Justice Department\u2019s request to let federal officials fully move ahead with Donald Trump\u2019s overhaul of mail voting ahead of the November midterm elections, leaving in place a Boston judge\u2019s order that declared the president\u2019s policies unlawful.<\/p>\n

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A three-judge appellate panel said it would not pause a lower court ruling that barred federal agencies from immediately enforcing Trump\u2019s executive order in almost two dozen states and the District of Columbia where Democratic officials sued.<\/p>\n

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Several other legal challenges are pending against the president\u2019s directives, including a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee and party leaders in Congress.<\/p>\n

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The Justice Department signaled in earlier court filings that it would consider taking the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court. While the Boston judge\u2019s injunction doesn\u2019t apply nationwide, it\u2019s considered a significant impediment to the administration\u2019s ability to carry out Trump\u2019s executive order for the November vote.<\/p>\n

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Advocates across the political spectrum are vying to swing election-related legal fights in their favor before November, when Republicans will defend tight margins of control in both chambers of Congress.<\/p>\n

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The majority of the panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit found that at this early stage of the case, the states that sued presented enough evidence that they were being harmed by the president\u2019s actions and had standing to press their claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll told, between the compressed timelines and anticipated changes to states\u2019 election processes, the summary judgment record indicates that the EO has already \u2018produced an incredible strain\u2019 on state election officials and their teams,\u201d Judges Gustavo Gelp\u00ed and Julie Rikelman wrote in a joint opinion, referring to Trump\u2019s executive order. Both judges were appointed by former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

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Judge Joshua Dunlap, an appointee during Trump\u2019s second term, partially dissented, writing that he would have allowed a section of the challenged order that directed the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a list of potentially eligible U.S. citizen voters as guidance for states, which run elections, to go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Spokespeople for the California attorney general\u2019s office, which led the coalition of states that sued, and for the Justice Department and the White House didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment. A dozen Republican state attorneys general also intervened in the case in support of the president\u2019s order.<\/p>\n

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The government argued that the Homeland Security list was intended to only serve as a resource to local jurisdictions. State officials who sued pointed to language in the executive order that appeared to threaten them with criminal prosecution if they didn\u2019t use the federal lists to determine who is eligible to vote.<\/p>\n

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The president also ordered the U.S .Postal Service to revamp the design of election mail and to adopt rules that would require states to coordinate with the agency on its lists of residents poised to receive mail-in ballots. The states that sued argued this would unlawfully turn the postal service into an \u201celections regulator\u201d and empower the agency to refuse to deliver ballots.<\/p>\n

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The administration and the president\u2019s supporters are promoting the measures as safeguards against fraud. Democrats, voting rights organizations and others denounced the plan as an unlawful move to interfere with state management of congressional elections and to sow chaos and confusion beforehand to benefit Republicans.<\/p>\n

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In late June, the judge in Boston sided with the Democratic state officials who sued, declaring several sections of Trump\u2019s order \u201cunconstitutionally void\u201d and blocking agencies from executing it in those jurisdictions ahead of the Nov. 3 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In the DNC\u2019s case in Washington, a federal district judge entered an order in May refusing to block the executive action ahead of the November contest, finding it was premature because agencies hadn\u2019t taken steps to implement it. Shortly after that decision, the Postal Service began the formal rulemaking process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Democratic officials involved in that case have asked the D.C. Circuit to step in and block Trump\u2019s directives before the Nov. 3 midterms.<\/p>\n

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