US Supreme Court blocks rule limiting mail voting

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections.

The unsigned, one-paragraph order upheld a Massachusetts federal court’s injunction on a U.S. Postal Service rule until after Nov. 3 and did not decide whether the rule itself was lawful. But a majority of the court …