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The brief

A federal ⁠judge blocked a proposed restriction on mail-in voting across the US, challenging a crackdown on elections ordered by Donald Trump. Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US district court for the District of Columbia ruled that a US Postal Service (USPS) plan to deny ballots to voters in states that do not turn over their voter rolls to the federal government should not proceed. It was the second time in recent weeks that the US president’s plan to restrict mail-in-voting has suffered a setback in court. The decision by Sullivan bars the postal service from enforcing an executive order issued by Trump in March that called for sweeping changes…