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A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday blocked key provisions of President Donald Trump's executive order on voting eligibility and mail-in ballots, the second such judicial rebuff in as many days and a development that markets are reading as a signal of deepening friction between the executive branch and the courts over unilateral policy action.
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District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, barred the Trump administration from enforcing the sections of the order directing federal agencies to compile lists of confirmed U.S.
citizens eligible to vote, and from instructing the Postmaster General to propose a rule under which the U.S. Postal Service would refuse to transmit ballots for individuals not appearing on those state lists.
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