Why SCOTUS Protecting Mail-in Ballots Guards Trans Voting Rights

On September 14, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down proposed changes by the Trump administration to limit mail-in ballot voting. This decision comes just a month and a half before the midterm elections in November. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on March 31 aimed at changing the mail-in voting system by attempting to regulate the USPS’s ability to send out ballots to individuals that were not listed on newly created federal mail rosters compiled using potentially incomplete and inaccurate federal databases created for other purposes, not current and existing state voter registration. The move could have restricted access to millions of eligible voters, especially given that nearly one-third of the country votes by mail, per The Guardian. This comes after many years of President Trump falsely alleging that mail-in ballots have been the source of massive voter fraud and cause for his loss of the 2020 election. It is worth noting that Trump is to be a mail-in voter, per Politico. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, “The principal thrust of the order is to charge the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) with determining who may vote by mail and instructs it to refuse to deliver ballots sent by anyone not included on newly created federal mail voter lists.” Per the independent, nonpartisan law and policy organization, the move would criminally penalize election officials, mail couriers, and anyone else involved in delivering mail-in ballots to voters “the administration deems ineligible.” Additionally, the law organization stated that the move would possibly have also required the creation of a national list of voting-age citizens by the Department of Homeland Security, all while using incomplete information, “to facilitate this usurpation of state and federal laws governing mail voting.”The Constitution recognizes that individual states and Congress have the power to regulate their own free and fair elections; this federal attempt to alter