The Supreme Court struck down the U.S. Postal Service's rule restructuring mail-in voting Monday,halting a major Trump administration priority.

The big picture: The decision, which two justices publicly dissented from, is a major win for voting rights advocates and the states that challenged the administration's plan; it also reverses the Supreme Court's earlier green light for President Trump's mail-in voting order.

• The justices' prior unsigned order allowing the rule to proceed was not a ruling on the merits — but this time around, they decided the government is "unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge."
• The rule would require states to submit lists of eligible voters to USPS, and the agency would then verify that those voters were receiving mail-in ballots before sending them out. The rule also had strict requirements on envelope design.

Driving the news: While the court rejected the administration's stance, at least one concurring justice disagreed on the merits of the case.

• Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion that "there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority" but that applying the proposed rules would be "arbitrary and capricious" for the midterm elections as state and local officials "do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule."
• Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented in a separate opinion.
• In their opinion, they called the filings...

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