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Here's what to expect after the Supreme Court's ruling yesterday related to the Trump administration's plan to try to restrict mail voting in the midterms. Efforts to either block the plan or implement it before November will now progress rapidly, sources tell @propublica.org 🧵

Background: The plan was outlined in an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in March. One of its most consequential directives requires states to give the U.S. Postal Service lists of eligible mail voters that would determine who gets sent a ballot.

Many legal challenges followed. A district court judge heard two separate challenges to the USPS plan, and issued injunctions in both cases, saying it violated the constitution.

The Supreme Court’s ruling only lifted the injunction from one of those cases — the other so far remains, meaning the USPS still cannot implement the plan. The justices did not take up the merits of the executive order, just the timing of the injunction.

The court’s Republican majority found that the lower court erred in putting the injunction in place when they said the plaintiffs hadn't yet established harm, because USPS hadn't issued a final rule on the matter when the lawsuit was filed.

Democratic secretaries of states and voting rights groups have vowed to file new legal challenges to the final USPS rule and the executive order. Challenges have already begun, and may continue tomorrow. That will keep this in court.

Whether it's possible to implement the steps called for by the executive order is a big question. USPS would need a way to track voter lists and ballots. And, under a separate part of the order, election offices nationwide would need to add barcodes to ballot envelopes.

At least two states will begin sending ballots to military and overseas voters next week — all will within a month. Early voting begins in many states in six weeks.