( September 8, 2026, 4:14 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — The government and 12 intervenor states on Sept. 4 separately appealed a Massachusetts federal judge’s preliminary injunction blocking mandatory portions of the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) mail-in ballot final rule, issued under President Donald Trump’s March 31 Executive Order (EO) directing federal agencies to compile and share voter citizenship data from federal databases USPS to develop mail-in ballot requirements involving voter information, after the district court judge found the rule likely exceeded USPS’s statutory authority and unconstitutionally intruded on election regulation reserved to Congress and the states....