{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/baldwin-urges-supreme-court-to-block-trumps-effort-to-restrict-mail-in-voting", "Baldwin Urges Supreme Court to Block Trump\u2019s Effort to Restrict Mail-In Voting", "2026-09-10", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "WI", "Tammy Baldwin", "B001230", "www.baldwin.senate.gov", "baldwin", "https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and her colleagues are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block President Trump\u2019s unconstitutional Executive Order and U.S. Postal Service rule that attempts to restrict Wisconsinites\u2019 ability to vote by mail ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.\n\nSpecifically, Baldwin joined a bipartisan group of 261 current and former lawmakers in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the matter of State of California, et al. v. United States Postal Service, et al., a lawsuit brought by a coalition of State Attorneys General against the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The court case challenges a final rule issued by the USPS in response to Trump\u2019s directive that imposes unconstitutional and unworkable restrictions on mail-in voting, including requiring states to provide a \u201ccitizenship verification list\u201d and attempting to give USPS control over who can vote by mail.\n\n\u201cThe President is trying to meddle in the elections because he knows that Americans are going to hold him accountable in November,\u201d said Senator Baldwin. \u201cInstead of changing course and doing what he said he would to lower costs, he is trying to silence Americans from having their voice heard at the ballot box. This effort to stop Americans from voting by mail \u2013 despite many Wisconsinites already having their ballots on their counters \u2013 is cut and dry unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court needs to say just that and protect Americans\u2019 right to vote.\u201d\n\nNearly one-third of Americans have voted by mail in recent elections, including over 500,000 Wisconsinites in the 2024 election \u2014 a voting practice Trump himself used as recently as August 2026, when he voted in Florida\u2019s Republican primary.\n\nIn the court filing, the lawmakers argue that Trump\u2019s Executive Order 14399 and USPS\u2019s final rule violate the separation of powers and usurp congressional authorities outlined in Article I of the U.S. Constitution, which gives the States and Congress exclusive authority over election administration.\n\nThe lawmakers also pointed to a recent federal court ruling blocking the USPS from implementing its newly finalized mail ballot rule for the midterm elections, saying the agency lacked the authority to implement the rule and that its actions are \u201csubstantively unconstitutional and contrary to law.\u201d\n\nThe lawmakers concluded by asserting States\u2019 power to administer elections and Congress\u2019s power to make or alter rules regulating elections, which the Supreme Court itself has described as an \u201coverride\u201d authority. Trump\u2019s illegal incursion on this authority is an attempt to disenfranchise people who depend on mail-in ballots to vote.\n\nSenator Baldwin has repeatedly pushed back against the Trump Administration\u2019s efforts to restrict mail-in voting and disenfranchise Wisconsin voters. In June, Baldwin demanded that the USPS abandon the rule, and in July, she called on the USPS to immediately address severe mail delays that caused hundreds of Wisconsinites\u2019 ballots to arrive after Election Day in April.\n\nThe lawmakers\u2019 demands come as President Trump has taken an all-of-the-above approach to try to interfere in the upcoming 2026 elections. In addition to his attempt to curtail legal mail-in voting, the President has repeatedly threatened to send federal agents to states\u2019 polling places, repeated his claim about \u201crigged\u201d elections more than 100 times, and sent FBI agents into Milwaukee to relitigate his 2020 election loss.\n\nThe amicus brief was led by Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Gary Peters (D-MI) and joined by the entire Senate Democratic Caucus.\n\nThe full brief is available here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-11T09:25:29Z", "2026-09-11T09:27:08Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/baldwin-urges-supreme-court-to-block-trumps-effort-to-restrict-mail-in-voting"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4361301437020302, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}