Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|
| 2026-09-17 | USPS Halts Development of Ballot-Verification System and Tells Staff It Will Not Enforce the Mail-Ballot Rules in 2026, Postmaster General Steiner Says
2 src David Steiner · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-14 | Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Mail-Ballot Rules 7-2 for the 2026 Midterms, Kavanaugh Resting It on Timing Rather Than Authority
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Brett Kavanaugh · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-13 | Judge Nichols Reverses Himself and Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Holding the Postal Reorganization Act Gives USPS No Such Authority
1 src United States Postal Service · Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Donald Trump | | reported |
| 2026-09-04 | Talwani Preliminarily Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Citing a Final Rule Issued Fewer Than Seventy Days Before the Election
4 src Indira Talwani · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-01 | Dakota County MN Commissioners Asked to Pledge Noncompliance With Federal Mail-Ballot Restrictions; Two of Seven Respond, No Vote Taken
1 src United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-28 | SCOTUS Lifts the Block on Trump's Mail-Voting Order as Premature; the USPS Rule Takes Effect, North Carolina Complies First, and Talwani Blocks It Again
1 src Indira Talwani · Ketanji Brown Jackson · U.S. Postal Service · North Carolina State Board of Elections | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-29 | SCOTUS in Watson v. RNC Upholds Mississippi 5-Day Mail-Ballot Window, 5-4, Barrett Writes for Liberal Bloc
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Amy Coney Barrett · Republican National Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-25 | Judge Talwani blocks Trump mail-voting executive order across 23 states and D.C.
4 src Indira Talwani · Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-03 | 23 States Sue Trump Over Mail Voting Executive Order as Democratic AGs File 100th Lawsuit Against Administration
3 src Keith Ellison · Letitia James · Chuck Schumer · Hakeem Jeffries |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-31 | Trump Issues Executive Order Directing USPS to Refuse Delivery of Mail Ballots to Non-Approved Voters
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-31 | Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Creation of National Verified Voter List and USPS Mail Ballot Control
6 src Donald Trump · DHS · Social Security Administration · USPS · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-11-03 | Judge Sullivan Orders Emergency USPS Ballot Sweeps, DeJoy Initially Defies Court Order
4 src Emmet Sullivan · Louis DeJoy · USPS · Federal Courts |
| confirmed |
| 2020-08-24 | DeJoy House Testimony Refuses to Restore Mail Sorting Machines Despite Court Concerns
4 src Louis DeJoy · Carolyn Maloney · Ro Khanna · USPS |
| confirmed |
| 2020-08-13 | Trump Explicitly Admits Blocking USPS Funding to Restrict Mail Voting
4 src Donald Trump · Louis DeJoy · USPS |
| confirmed |
| 2020-08-01 | DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge
3 src Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts |
| confirmed |