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Trump admin says it's running out of time before November

Trump Tried to Turn the Postal Service Into a Ballot GatekeeperThe move, stripped downThe Trump administration is racing to revive an executive order that would let federal agencies build a national citizenship list and give the U.S. Postal Service a new role in deciding which mail ballots get handled. Two federal judges have now blocked key pieces of that plan, one in Massachusetts and one in Washington, D.C., on the basic ground that the president does not get to rewrite how states run elections by decree.Who had the powerThe real institutional power in this story sits with the White House…

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