Federal agencies haven’t started on Trump order restricting voting by mail, DOJ says

By: Jonathan Shorman

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: May 4, 2026

Words: 1,015

Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Federal agencies say they have yet to take steps to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, as the Department of Justice fights a Democrat-led lawsuit against it.

The Justice Department late Friday filed documents asking a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit and to not block the executive order on a preliminary basis because the order hasn’t been implemented. The filings marked the Trump administration’s first effort to defend the order …

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