WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, released this statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to reverse a lower-court ruling that blocked the Postal Service from implementing requirements that would have interfered with vote-by-mail in Washington state and nationwide:

"This close to the election we need stability, not disenfranchisement and confusion. I'm glad a majority of the Supreme Court Justices rejected Trump's mail-in ballot scheme that would have created chaos and denied many America...