Indian-American judge extends block on Trump’s mail-voting curbs ahead of midterm polls

US President Donald Trump. A US federal judge has extended a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting, marking another legal setback to the administration less than two months before the November midterm elections.District Judge Indira Talwani, an Indian-American jurist, issued a preliminary injunction on Friday preventing the US Postal Service (USPS) from implementing the new mail-voting procedures.The ruling came as North Carolina began sending mail-in ballots to voters for the November 3 elections.Judge warns of ‘significant disenfranchisement’Talwani, who had earlier temporarily halted the order, said states did not have enough time to overhaul their election systems before ballots were due to be mailed.The judge noted that states were legally required to send millions of ballots within prescribed timelines and could not make major changes this late in the election cycle without risking the disenfranchisement of eligible voters.The latest ruling follows a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 24 state attorneys general challenging Trump’s voting order.What Trump’s mail-voting order seeksTrump signed the executive order in March...