What Happened
On Thursday, June 25, a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked President Trump’s March 2026 executive order targeting mail-in voting and creating a national voter registration database, saying that this power is reserved for the states and exceeds both the scope of Presidential authority and the bounds of the USPS. This comes after the Postmaster General said he would follow the USPS’s proposed rule to implement the executive order – on Wednesday, June 24 – which led to some dramatic headlines.

Reminder: Trump called on the Postmaster General to start the rulemaking process for his proposed changes to mail-in voting, and on June 2 the Postal Service issued a proposed rule that would require, among other things, USPS to only send and receive absentee ballots to and from voters who are on a state-approved list in federal general, special, or runoff elections. This would effectively transition the U.S. Postal Service from being a neutral mail carrier to an overseer of ballot distribution.

What This Means
At present, nothing has changed for voters in Michigan. If the Administration chooses to do so, it can still appeal today’s District Court decision.