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This story has run 16 times over 50 days, starting Aug 26.

  1. USPS violated a court order to finalize Trump’s mail-ballot rule; judge allows publication
  2. Judge clears Trump’s USPS mail-ballot rule; 24 states and D.C. sue hours later
  3. UpdateJudge blocks USPS from rejecting noncompliant mail ballots for 14 days; DOJ appeals
  4. UpdateMissouri asks the Supreme Court to reinstate its 7-1 congressional map three days before the ballot deadline
  5. Kavanaugh leaves Missouri's 6-2 map in place; hours later a federal judge orders the state to run the 7-1 map
  6. UpdateStates ask Supreme Court to keep new USPS ballot requirements blocked
  7. Update3-0 First Circuit keeps Trump mail-ballot rule blocked as 7 Republican officials oppose pre-November start
  8. UpdateSupreme Court leaves Trump's USPS mail-ballot rules blocked for Nov. 3 midterms in apparent 7-2 vote
  9. UpdateMail ballots will move under pre-2026 rules on Nov. 3 as the administration stands down
  10. UpdateSupreme Court lets states resume checking voter rolls against Trump's expanded federal citizenship database while the case is appealed
  11. Supreme Court votes 6-3 to let Trump deport migrants to third countries without notice or a chance to raise torture fears
  12. Supreme Court agrees to decide whether ICE can jail immigrants who entered illegally without a bond hearing
  13. Supreme Court opens its term Oct. 5 with 30 cases, after rulings against Trump on tariffs and more
  14. UpdateJustice Samuel Alito says a “concerted effort” is trying to intimidate the Supreme Court into deciding cases differently
  15. Justice Samuel Alito, 76, says he will serve through June 2027, ruling out a lame-duck retirement
  16. Supreme Court, 7-2, blocks order forcing FCC to rule within 48 hours on party ad rates — this issue
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Supreme Court, 7-2, blocks order forcing FCC to rule within 48 hours on party ad rates

Party ad rates
Political Guyentist · October 15, 20261 min read

NYT

Democratic candidates asked the FCC to stop party committees from buying TV ads at the low rates reserved for candidates, and the Fourth Circuit ordered the agency to rule within 48 hours. The Supreme Court halted that deadline 7-2, its second ruling for Republicans in the dispute, per Reuters and The Hill. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson dissented from the unsigned order.

The rulingVote: 7-2; Sotomayor and Jackson dissented (Washington Examiner, The Hill)2 details
  • Vote: 7-2; Sotomayor and Jackson dissented (Washington Examiner, The Hill)
  • The unsigned order said courts may not "meddle in 'the workings of a coordinate branch of the Government' in this manner"

What we’re less sure of1 of 5 claims