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Opinion | A Supreme Court Split Decision on Executive Power
The President can fire agency heads—except for the Federal Reserve.
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Two big Supreme Court rulings, with Alito and conservatives in dissent.
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Trump might be able to attack mail ballots despite Supreme Court order
The Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's challenge to state laws allowing mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted after Election Day. Despite the ruling, the court simultaneously issued its decision in Trump v. Slaughter, overturning nearly a century of precedent by allowing the president to fire members of independent agencies without cause. Reuters' White House correspondent Jacob Bogage explained the ruling's implications on X, "This also has big potential mail-in voting consequences," he wrote."It could empower the president to fire members of the USPS board of governors, the group that selects the postmaster general and overseas the U.S. mail system."Current Postmaster General David Steiner is already implementing a controversial Trump executive order directing the Postal Service to withhold mail ballot delivery in states refusing to provide sensitive voter practice information to the federal government. A federal judge in Boston has moved to block enforcement of the executive order, though litigation is expected to continue.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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US supreme court upholds law to count mail-in ballots arriving after election day
Court sides against Republicans after deciding earlier this term to let Louisiana effectively dismantle Voting Rights ActUS supreme court decisions – live updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe US supreme court sided against national Republicans and Donald Trump’s administration to allow mail-in ballots that arrive after election day to be counted, upholding the law in more than a dozen states.The Republican National Committee (RNC) had challenged a Mississippi state law allowing mailed ballots to be counted if they arrive within five business days of election day, so long as they were postmarked by election day.This article was amended on 29 June 2026 to correct some misspelled names Continue reading...
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Trump unloads after Supreme Court upholds late mail-in ballots in Mississippi
Trump slams Supreme Court ruling allowing late mail-in ballots, demands Congress pass the SAVE Act requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship.
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One big win and three defeats for Trump in dramatic day at Supreme Court
While Trump celebrated a ruling expanding presidential power to remove and replace regulators, other decisions were major setbacks.
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Trump 'completely livid' over mail-in ballot decision
President Donald Trump is reportedly “livid” at a Supreme Court judge he appointed for not siding with him in his desire to force states to not count mail-in ballots when they arrive after Election Day.“He is completely livid over the mail-in ballot ruling,” senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes said on Monday. “And of course, part of this is about the justices who decided to rule against him in this case. Just a reminder — this was the Republican National Committee challenging a Mississippi law that allowed mail-in ballots that came in after Election Day to still be counted.”She added that “if you look at the justices who voted against Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, one of them sticks out in particular, and that is Amy Coney Barrett — whom President Trump himself appointed to the bench. Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated. We've reported multiple times that behind closed doors he has slammed Amy Coney Barrett, saying that she has not stepped up and has not done basically what he put her in place to do.”Trump has particularly focused on reducing the influence of mail-in ballots and on passing the SAVE America Act because, as he has admitted, he hopes to disenfranchise enough Democratic voters that Republicans can retain control of the House of Representatives and Senate.“We have heard from senators up and down that they just don't have the votes to get it through, that there aren't enough Republicans who support it,” Holmes said. “And now we're hearing that the White House as well as Speaker Johnson are putting a lot of pressure on members, working the phones, to try to get this through whatever way they possibly can. You heard President Trump saying this is now more important than ever.”She added, “And I will tell you, Erin — I'm told by a White House official that President Trump is unlikely to sign that bipartisan housing bill. He'll just let it go into law. He's not going to veto it, but right now he views actually signing it as a betrayal to his base. He has promised to get the Save America Act through before he signs any major legislation, so he's willing to potentially not sign this very widely supported housing bill in order to try to push the Save America Act forward.”Speaker to AlterNet earlier this month Dan Vicuña, the Senior Policy Director for Voting and Fair Representation at the good government nonprofit Common Cause, accused Trump of attempting to suppress mail-in voting, demand stricter voter ID laws, obtain access to voter rules to conduct mass purges and threaten to install ICE at polling places in order to rig the 2026 midterm elections in his favor.“What they all add up to is a desire to avoid any accountability to the voters in the midterm elections — to ensure, to preordain the outcome of a midterm that he thinks is going to go badly for him,” Vicuña told AlterNet. “We know, from the Big Lie of the 2020 election to spurring on a violent revolt to overthrow a free and fair election, that he has no respect for democratic norms, for the voice of the people. This is entirely about his own power and his own ego. He will even invest in protecting that ego and protecting his power at the expense of the needs of the public. People are suffering with high gas prices and affordability issues, and he does not care. All that matters is protecting his power, and he has no interest in whether he does that through democratic means.”Vicuña added that Trump’s attempts to national elections could also be illegal.“I think some of these attempts to federalize, to nationalize elections are clearly illegal,” Vicuña said. “You've seen some of that overreach already struck down — attempts to order independent agencies to force a strict voter ID requirement on people. That has been rejected. Common Cause is in court challenging the latest executive order to turn the United States Postal Service into some election administration agency and to create a further bureaucratic layer to make it more difficult to vote by mail. In terms of the president's authority to order around USPS, it's illegal. In terms of USPS's authority to become some sort of national election administration agency, it far exceeds the legal authority that Congress gave to the postal service. The statute describing what kind of work the postal service would do is about postal service work — processing mail and selling stamps. It has nothing to do with election administration.”Republican lawmakers have reportedly complained that Trump has given them an “impossible task” by demanding that they pass the unpopular SAVE America Act.
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Supreme Court Lets States Count Mailed Ballots Received After Election Day
The decision rebuffs the Republican National Committee’s efforts to end grace periods for some late-arriving votes that were postmarked by Election Day.
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A ‘Tremendous Loss’ and a ‘Big Win’: Trump Reacts to Mixed Bag of Supreme Court Rulings
President Donald Trump took to social media on Monday to react to the Supreme Court’s decisions in several cases—some of which he decried, while others he celebrated.
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