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A federal judge halted President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail-in voting, and constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley describes the aftermath as a “flurry of injunctions” while walking through the legal reasoning. The clip makes a simple point: voting mechanics have stopped being a bureaucratic detail and become a judicial battleground that can alter how and when ballots are counted. For investors, the takeaway is procedural risk, courtrooms, not just campaign ads, can shape election timelines, turnout narratives, and the political backdrop markets must price.