A federal judge declined Thursday, May 29, to block President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, letting the order stand while legal challenges play out. The ruling came the same day Israeli and Lebanese officials were scheduled to meet — as separate U.S.-Iran peace negotiations continued running in the background.
The mail-in voting order had drawn court scrutiny almost immediately after Trump signed it. A judge’s refusal to issue a block means the restrictions stay in effect for now; whether further legal challenges will succeed remains unresolved.
Details on which federal judge issued the ruling, what court it came from, and the specific scope of the restrictions were not included in NPR’s initial report Thursday morning.
On the foreign policy front, the Israel-Lebanon meeting was set against a backdrop of ongoing U.S.-Iran diplomacy. NPR reported the two tracks — the Lebanon talks and the Iran negotiations — were moving simultaneously as of Thursday. No outcomes from either meeting had been reported by mid-morning.
No further details on the Israel-Lebanon agenda or the U.S.-Iran talks were available in the initial NPR report.
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