A federal judge has blocked a proposal by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to impose stricter regulations on the delivery of mail-in ballots.
The ruling, issued by Judge Emmet Sullivan, prevents the implementation of new rules that would have required states to provide detailed voter-level data for mail-in ballots in federal elections.
The decision complicates the Trump administration's broader effort to restrict mail-in voting and enforce new limitations on absentee ballot procedures.
The proposed USPS rules were part of a coordinated push to tighten election security measures, but the court found the restrictions legally untenable.
This development follows a series of legal challenges to the administration's election policies.
Earlier this week, a federal judge in Boston blocked key provisions of an executive order aimed at restricting mail-in voting.