{"id":20298,"date":"2026-07-28T22:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=20298"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:12:48","slug":"while-one-challenge-to-trumps-election-order-reaches-scotus-he-notches-early-win-in-parallel-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=20298","title":{"rendered":"While One Challenge to Trump\u2019s Election Order Reaches SCOTUS, He Notches Early Win in Parallel Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n<br><div id=\"article-content\">\n            \n\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple challenges to President Donald Trump\u2019s March \u201celection integrity\u201d executive order are moving through the federal judiciary simultaneously, including one that has <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/appeals-court-trump-mail-in-voting-midterms\" target=\"_blank\">reached<\/a> the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, an appeals court in Washington D.C. presiding over a separate challenge to the EO sided with the administration, agreeing that it is too early for plaintiffs to challenge the order that would overhaul the absentee voting system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Notably, the plaintiffs in the case before the Supreme Court \u2014 <em>Trump v. California<\/em> \u2014\u00a0are states, who may have an easier sell: They need to do a massive amount of work and spend tons of money to put the order into action now, even before it\u2019s finalized, to be ready for November. The panel of D.C. judges found that the plaintiff in the second case \u2014 the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee \u2014 could only point to speculative harms that might arise if the order is enforced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Trump administration has taken steps to finalize and enforce the order, but the D.C. Circuit Court only looked at the body of evidence the district court analyzed. The panel \u2014 two Obama appointees and one Trump appointee \u2014 unanimously upheld the lower court\u2019s finding that it\u2019s too early to challenge the order.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cPlaintiffs claim four types of injuries that\u2026 flow not from Executive Order 14,399 itself, but entirely from predicted future actions contemplated by that Order,\u201d the panel wrote.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Part of the reason the DSCC challenged the order immediately, its lawyers wrote, was to avoid running afoul of the Purcell<em> <\/em>principle, the inconsistently applied theory that federal courts shouldn\u2019t change voting laws just before elections. The panel \u2014 perhaps naively, given the Supreme Court\u2019s predilection for deciding that Purcell<em> <\/em>matters only when it helps Republicans \u2014 assured the DSCC that its worry is unfounded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cPlaintiffs\u2019 fear has the Purcell principle backwards,\u201d they wrote. \u201cIf the federal agencies were to take the actions the Plaintiffs fear and if they were to attempt to impose those massive changes on the States\u2019 voting systems on the threshold of the upcoming election, then those actions (if found unlawful) could be enjoined without implicating any federalism or reliance interests because the injunction would preserve the States\u2019 existing electoral status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Trump administration is clearly trying to run out the clock on challengers\u2019 ability to stop the order. 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