Baldwin lists Trump's push to restrict mail voting among moves to avoid accountability
Tammy BaldwinU.S. senator from Wisconsin, posting on her official Bluesky account
Sen. Tammy Baldwin lists directing the Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting among the actions she says President Trump is taking to avoid responsibility for his record in the November election.
“Directing the USPS to restrict mail-in voting” … “President Trump is doing all of this to avoid responsibility for his broken promises this November — but we will hold him accountable.”
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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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Baldwin's post lists three actions by President Trump ahead of the November election.
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The post is a list of three items. It opens with "Reheating 2020 lies" and also lists "Threatening to deploy armed federal agents to our polling places".
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The Supreme Court left the injunction against the Postal Service rule in place for the 2026 election on September 14, and the Postal Service told staff the rules would not be enforced this year.
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Baldwin treats the Postal Service mail-voting restrictions as part of an effort to escape accountability at the polls, which condemns the policy under scrutiny in this case.
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