The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for the Trump administration to begin enforcing parts of an executive order restricting mail-in voting, a decision that lands with particular force in Washington, where every one of the state's 39 counties has run elections entirely by mail since 2011.
Attorney General can prioritize prosecuting state officials who issue ballots to people not on that list, and USPS can begin rulemaking on how states format their mail ballots, ABC News reported.
In practice, that leaves the coalition's underlying claim, that a president cannot unilaterally rewrite how states run elections, still alive in the lower courts even as the order itself starts moving.
Bob Ferguson called Monday's decision "terrible" and said it was "only the beginning" of the legal fight, warning it could "disenfranchise Washingtonians," according to KIRO 7 .
3 election compresses a process that normally has far more runway.
A 6-3 Supreme Court ruling lets the Trump administration begin building a federal voter list ahead of Washington's Nov. 3 election. Washington's governor, a senator, its top elections officials and AG Nick Brown say the fight is far from over.