A bombshell whistleblower report alleged that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) brazenly violated multiple court orders to secretly advance President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting ahead of the upcoming midterms.
The report, released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s (D-Conn.) office Tuesday, claims that USPS continued to implement parts of Trump’s March 2026 anti-voting executive order weeks after it said it was complying with multiple court orders largely barring it from doing so. And the document offers details of how the postal agency allegedly did that.
The defiance alleged by the whistleblower dovetails with the administration’s broader alarming pattern of skirting or ignoring court orders in immigration-related cases and other lawsuits.
With lawsuits ongoing against Trump’s mail voting restrictions, the revelations in the report could allow the plaintiffs to argue for additional court orders against USPS or for existing orders to remain in place.
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According to the whistleblower, USPS didn’t just misrepresent its plans. The agency also disregarded court orders while the Department of Justice (DOJ) was simultaneously seeking extraordinary legal relief from the Supreme Court to lift those same orders.
The Court eventually granted that relief last week.
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