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A federal appeals court kept restrictions on mail-in voting, the practice of returning a marked ballot by post rather than visiting a polling place in person, blocked in 23 states on Saturday.
The court found that states need adequate preparation time before election procedures change in potentially disruptive ways. The Trump administration then asked the Supreme Court to step in and override that decision.
What the appeals court found An appeals court sits one rung below the Supreme Court in the federal judiciary. When it blocks a federal policy, that is a pause, not a final verdict on whether the policy is legal.
The court found that the 23 states that sued had a credible enough argument to keep the restrictions off while judges work through the full legal questions.
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