Twelve GOP Attorneys General Move to Appeal Block on USPS Mail Ballot Plan

Twelve Republican state attorneys general are pushing to bring back restrictions on mail-in voting, the practice of casting ballots by mail, in time for the 2028 election, NPR reported. The attorneys general have started the process of appealing a September order by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols. That order blocked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from carrying out its revised ballot mail plan.

The attorneys general who are appealing represent Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas.

The rule at the center of the case was released in late August in response to an executive order by President Trump. It would require states to turn over lists of voters' names and addresses in order to have federal ballot mail delivered by USPS. Ballot mail is the mail used to send and return election ballots.

Nichols issued a preliminary injunction, a temporary court order that pauses a policy while a case continues, blocking USPS from putting the revised plan into effect for all federal elections, including the 2028 race.

A separate case reached the Supreme Court earlier. In September, the justices refused to pause a similar ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani. That ruling stopped USPS from working on its revised rule for federal ballot mail for the midterm elections.