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FEATURING DAVID DALEY - The US Supreme Court on Monday issued a 6-3 ruling allowing the Trump administration to restrict mail-in voting. All six conservative justices voted to lift a June 2026 injunction on Trump’s quest to make it harder for people to cast ballots, particularly in liberal voting regions such as California, Oregon and elsewhere. 

The majority issued an unsigned opinion stating, “The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell.”

In response, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her dissent wrote that the ruling “needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections.”

David Daley is a senior fellow at FairVote and the author of Antidemocratic: Inside the Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections, a history of John Roberts, the Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act. He spoke with Sonali Kolhatkar about what the SCOTUS ruling actually means.

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