WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The Supreme Court has allowed key parts of President Donald Trump’s election order to move forward ahead of the midterms. In a 6-3 decision, the court lifted a lower-court injunction blocking provisions directing the Department of Homeland Security to compile voter-eligibility lists and the Justice Department to prioritize investigations of election officials who issue ballots to people deemed ineligible.
Twenty-three states sued, arguing the order amounted to a federal takeover of elections traditionally administered by the states. Lower courts blocked the provisions, but the Supreme Court reversed them — not on the merits, but on standing grounds — concluding the states had not yet shown a sufficiently concrete injury to challenge them.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in dissent, said states deserved “clarity, not caginess or confusion” and accused the administration of deliberately delaying implementation while the case was before the court, then seeking emergency permission to put the same provisions into effect.
The case now returns to the lower courts while the challenged provisions remain in effect.
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