Lawsuit from Democratic-led states can proceed over Trump’s order to restrict mail-in voting – live
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21.35 EDTLawsuit from Democratic-led states and voting rights groups can proceed over Trump’s executive order to restrict mail votingA federal judge in Boston ruled that Democratic-led states and voting rights groups could proceed with lawsuits challenging Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to restrict vote-by-mail ahead of November’s midterm elections.US district judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by Barack Obama, ruled that the potential for Trump’s order to impact the midterm elections meant the plaintiffs’ cases could not wait to be heard.Trump’s order “both includes multiple specific directives as to certain actions that federal agencies must take at specified times and requires that definite ’substantive outcomes’ be implemented that will affect the upcoming…
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