Trump v. California · ¶80

The Plaintiff States also had Article III standing because, in addition to their current injuries, they faced a significant risk of harm in the immediate future due to the President’s Order. See TransUnion, 594 U. S., at 423. These Plaintiffs had “certainly impending pocketbook injuries from [the Order’s] direction that USPS control the design of envelopes in all federal voting-by-mail processes,” given that “several states had already purchased mail-ballot envelopes” for the 2026 elections. ＿＿＿ F. 4th, at ＿＿＿, App. 11a. The States would also almost certainly have had to bear other “significant” financial “costs” from having to “update training materials for local election officials and their staffs.” Ibid. And the on-the-ground chaos that would indisputably follow from last-minute implementation of the President’s directives risked imminent harm to these States’ sovereign interests in…

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