On September 4, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued a 49-page ruling in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v Trump, 1:26cv-11549. Earlier the same judge had issued a temporary restraining order in the same case. The ruling prevents the U.S. Postal Service with continuing its plan to refuse to deliver postal ballots unless they are bar-coded to show that that particular voter is on a federal list of voters.