一名联邦法官周日深夜下令，美国邮政总局不得执行总统唐纳德·特朗普限制邮寄投票的行政命令，这为政府改写选举规则的努力再添一道障碍，而最高法院即将就此进行权衡。

最高法院已在审议政府对波士顿联邦地区法院法官英迪拉·塔尔瓦尼一项命令的上诉。该命令禁止邮政总局在今年中期选举前执行其关于邮寄投票的新规。

周日深夜，华盛顿特区联邦地区法院法官卡尔·J·尼科尔斯对8月21日发布的这项规定作出了类似的暂缓执行裁定。

尼科尔斯在发布初步禁令时写道：“原告们已经证明，如果不下达禁令，即将举行的选举中大量原本合规的缺席选票或邮寄选票最终可能不被计票的风险将会增加。公众强烈希望确保这种情况不会发生。”尼科尔斯曾在5月拒绝发布禁令，因为他裁定寻求禁令的诉讼提起得过早。这正是最高法院上月末解除塔尔瓦尼此前冻结令时的理由。但由于政府刚刚发布了推进特朗普计划的规则，波士顿和华盛顿特区的原告重新提起了诉讼。塔尔瓦尼由前总统巴拉克·奥巴马提名，尼科尔斯由特朗普提名。

The new Postal Service regulations stem from an executive order Trump issued earlier this year. Election officials say it would be impossible to implement the changes this close to a general election. The regulations would require all ballot envelope designs to be pre-approved by the Postal Service and that states upload the identities of those who are to receive them into a still-inactive online portal. Mail ballots already are being sent out in at least three states — Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin — and more states are preparing to distribute mail ballots this week. A whistleblower report to Congress warned that millions of people would be disenfranchised if the rule was allowed to take effect for the midterms. The union representing U.S. Postal Service workers has pushed back against the executive order, saying it is not the job of postal workers to verify voter eligibility.邮寄投票长期以来一直是特朗普最喜欢攻击的目标，他错误地将其归咎于自己在2020年输给民主党人乔·拜登，并声称这是通往舞弊的途径，尽管他自己也使用过这种投票方式。帖子：第二名联邦法官冻结特朗普的邮寄选票命令，美国最高法院准备介入 MS NOW