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A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting mail voting on June 25, 2026, handing the administration a major setback in one of its election-rule fights. The ruling came after an earlier request to stop the order had been denied in May, so this was not a repeat of the same procedural move. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/b28c3425c1dc968cd0f57c61fb7a684e?utm_source=openai))

The June 25 decision granted summary judgment to Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the order, according to the court’s ruling and contemporaneous coverage. The judge found that the president could not use the order to change how states handle election administration in the way the plaintiffs had challenged, and she blocked the core parts of the directive from taking effect for the 2026 elections. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/159c192e48670a8740a6a378c683cb61?utm_source=openai))

The order at issue sought to create a federal voter list and limit who could receive a mail ballot. A separate federal case filed in Washington had already gone the other direction in May, when a judge declined to block the order because it had not yet been implemented. That earlier ruling did not resolve the Massachusetts case, which moved forward to the June injunction. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/b28c3425c1dc968cd0f57c61fb7a684e?utm_source=openai))

The disputes over the order have continued through the courts. In late July, a federal appellate panel declined to block the mail-ballot order while its status for the midterms remained unclear, showing that the legal fight over the policy was still active even after the Massachusetts injunction. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/5ed040e5055c82cf84545eba36a859d8?utm_source=openai))