Will SCOTUS deny Trump's emergency appeal to allow the feds to f#ck with mail-in voting?
89% of users predicted YES — the community missed this one. 36 predictions cast.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 24 granted the Trump administration's request for emergency relief, allowing the president's executive order restricting mail-in ballot delivery to proceed ahead of the 2026 midterms, rather than denying the appeal. The 6-3 ruling lifted an injunction that had blocked part of the order, which directs the U.S. Postal Service to withhold mail ballots from voters not on lists created under the administration's eligibility criteria. Democratic officials from 23 states and Washington, D.C., had sued to block the order, arguing the Constitution reserves election administration to states and Congress.
The court's action was an interim procedural win for the administration rather than a final ruling on the order's legality, and implementation remains complicated: a separate nationwide injunction issued Aug. 11 by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston still blocks the Postal Service from following the directive, leaving room for further litigation before the order can take full effect.
Predict Six's community had priced an 89% chance the court would deny the appeal, the opposite of what happened -- one of the larger misses of the week.