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Amicus brief of the Society for the Rule of Law, No. 26A305
Published by Society for the Rule of Law, filed at the Supreme Court on September 8, 2026.
Opposes a stay: Congress in the Help America Vote Act, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Voting Rights Act preserved election-practice authority for the states, and 52 U.S.C. 21145(a) supersedes the Title 39 provisions the government relies on.
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… voter lists, delivery of “any . . . paper ballots” to voters, and absentee balloting. 52 U.S.C. §§ 21081, 21083, 20506-07, 10502. Except where expressly altered by these statutes, Congress specifically preserved authority concerning these election practices and “election technology and administration requirements” for the States only, thereby withholding any such authority from the USPS. 52 U.S.C. §21084; see id. §§21085, 20507(a), 10502(g). And 52 USC §21145(a) specifically superseded resort to all the Title 39 non-election provisions on which Applicants rely. 1 Amicus states that no counsel for any party authored this brief in whole or in part, and that no entity, aside from amicus and its counsel, made any monetary contribution toward its preparation or submission. The views of SRL do not necessarily represent the views of all individual members. 1 --- <!-- page 8 --> Second, election mail was specifically withheld from the nonmailability provisions in 39 …
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- The administration asks the Supreme Court to lift a new block on mail-ballot rules · cited for the third September 8 brief, now held: the federal election statutes and 52 U.S.C. 21145(a)
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