Trump asks Supreme Court to revive blocked mail-in voting order

President Trump is taking his push to overhaul mail-in voting to the nation's highest court

The administration asked the Supreme Court Monday to let it move forward with the March executive order

that would create a federal list of eligible mail-in voters and bar the Postal Service from sending ballots to people not on that list

Lower courts have blocked the order in the 23 states and D.C. that sued

saying states are likely to succeed in their argument that the president does not have the authority to change how elections are run

Now the justices are being asked to step in, with the administration arguing the order is only policy guidance

while federal agencies continue working out the details. The appeal comes just days after Trump used a primetime address to renew his claims

that the election system needs stronger safeguards against fraud. The states challenging the order say the changes could disrupt preparations for November's midterms

while the administration says any new rules would need to be in place soon to have an impact this fall

The Supreme Court has ordered the states to respond by August 3rd, setting up what could become one of the most significant election cases before the midterms

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