Trump again appeals to Supreme Court on mail-voting restrictions as midterm elections loom

BOSTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots, hours after being unable to tell that judge whether the computer system that would govern the entire project was operational yet. The administration filed its appeal the afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out by North Carolina, which on Friday kicks off a wave of states shipping ballots out for the…