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📬 HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge is considering a block on Trump's dangerous mail voting executive order. Voting rights groups are arguing the order could cause widespread disenfranchisement in this year's midterms. Follow live updates from the courtroom here: https://demdock.com/4wYLHy5

Among those in the courtroom today are women from the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. DST are plaintiffs along with the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts. Although the Black sorority, founded amid the suffrage movement, is non-partisan, it supports voting rights. Find more live updates here:

Judge Talwani is interrogating the DOJ and 12 GOP state lawyers defending the USPS final rule over their claims that the voting rights groups' members don't have standing. If they don't, the uptick is USPS could mandate its mail ballot rules against those 12 states. Find more live updates here:

The DOJ told Judge Talwani at the outset of the hearing that the department will immediately appeal to the Supreme Court if she grants a preliminary injunction against USPS’s rule. Find more live updates here:

Plaintiffs are trying to hammer home that states will struggle to comply with the order in time to smoothly run elections. One lawyer noted that the Trump administration has received a declaration from only one state saying that they’re likely to be able to comply. Find more live updates here:

In an earlier filing, the DOJ compared mail ballots to cremated remains or fake explosive devices, arguing that the postal service is authorized to create rules for delivering sensitive materials. But the plaintiffs noted that in those cases, Congress had passed a statute authorizing the changes:

Judge Talwani says she will not rule from the bench, so we likely should not expect a ruling today. However, she added that she’s committed to “getting something out as quickly as I can.” Find more live updates here: