Trevor Potter says the Supreme Court decision stops the Postal Service "sowing chaos in our elections"
Trevor PotterPresident of the Campaign Legal Center and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, posting on his own Bluesky account; his organisation is a party to the litigation
Trevor Potter, president of the Campaign Legal Center and a former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission, welcomed the Supreme Court's decision on the mail voting executive order, saying it prevented the Postal Service from sowing chaos in the elections. His organisation is a party to the litigation and had obtained earlier blocks on the order in the district courts; he had also joined an amicus brief for more than 50 former state and federal judges urging the Supreme Court to uphold the lower court ruling.
“Tonight's Supreme Court decision prevents the U.S. Postal Service from sowing chaos in our elections”
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Should Trump’s new mail-in voting restrictions apply to the 2026 midterms?
USPS’s new federal ballot-mail rule requires election officials to meet envelope standards, enroll voters through a federal portal and submit outgoing ballots for verification. The Trump administration argues these are lawful anti-fraud postal controls. Challenging states and civil-rights organizations say USPS is intruding into state-run elections and that the late rollout threatens voters’ access. On September 14, the Supreme Court left a temporary block in place for the 2026 election. Alito and Thomas would have allowed enforcement; Kavanaugh objected to applying the rule this year.
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The speaker's own post on Bluesky. It opens a numbered thread, so the excerpt is the opening statement rather than his complete argument. Potter's organisation, the Campaign Legal Center, is a party to the litigation; his earlier posts record a preliminary injunction on September 4, a further district court block on September 14, and an amicus brief filed in August on behalf of more than 50 former state and federal judges.
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A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on September 4 blocking the Postal Service from implementing the order, and another judge extended a block on September 14. The Justice Department called the block baseless.
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Potter is a Republican appointee who led the Federal Election Commission under President George H. W. Bush, which places this objection outside a purely partisan division on the case.
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The label describes this statement's response within the context above.
Why this label?
Potter rejects their application, describing the order elsewhere as illegal and unconstitutional and welcoming the decision that stops the Postal Service implementing it. The closest competing label is “Challenged the characterization”, because his objection is framed in legal terms about the executive's authority rather than about the policy's merits. That loses because he is not disputing how the order has been described; he is opposing its operation and litigating to prevent it.
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