https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-voting-executive-order-lawsuit-78a4fbeb48d9c5fd27d1c865529fc65fWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting already underway.The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they’ve used for years and have accounted for nearly a third of votes cast.It represented a stark defeat for Trump on an issue he consistently has emphasized as vital to ensuring election integrity even though there is virtually no evidence of fraud with mail ballots.The Supreme Court majority did not detail its reasoning, as is typical for its emergency docket. Two justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, publicly dissented from the brief order.The Trump administration had asked the court, once again at the center of a roiling political controversy, to clear the way for restrictions before the pivotal November contests for control of Congress.Alito wrote in his dissent that the Postal Service “has broad authority to regulate the mail” and likely does have the power to enforce Trump’s restrictions.Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed that the restrictions should not go into effect for the midterms but indicated he might rule in favor of the Trump administration if the issue comes back before the court at a later time.>Mail ballots are already being sent to votersElection officials have said there was simply no way to carry out a complete overhaul in the weeks before the midterms. Indeed, Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin began sending mail ballots to voters over the past week while the new system was still not active.
The administration’s efforts had the potential to be especially disruptive in states that send out ballots entirely by mail. Washington’s Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, a Democrat, said the decision means work “to carry out a safe, secure, and accurate election” can continue ”without having to upend our election processes to meet unrealistic ballot mail requirements.”In Arizona, another largely vote-by-mail state, Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said “it is crucial for us to continue rejecting the notion that access and security are mutually exclusive when it comes to running strong elections.”Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican serving as the state’s chief election officer, said on social media that the Supreme Court’s decision means “Utahns can have confidence that the 2026 election will proceed as normal.”The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Trump administration plan would require states to adopt a uniform envelope style and submit lists of eligible voters to an online portal. The Postal Service could refuse to deliver ballots to states that didn’t comply.>State officials and voting rights groups pushed backA whistleblower report, though, said the postal system’s requirements could lead to millions of mail ballots never being sent, because problems with the not-yet-operational portal meant a single bar code error could result in an entire batch of ballots being tossed out.Democratic state officials and voting rights groups challenged the restrictions in court, arguing that the president has no constitutional authority to set election rules that would “virtually eliminate mail voting on the eve of a major election.”Lower courts agreed and blocked Trump’s plan, including a preliminary injunction issued by a judge nominated by the president.
Trump is a magician with more than 1 trick up his sleeve.
But the Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that federal control of the Postal Service allows them to set rules for mail ballot handling and that compliance was possible.The federal government won an early procedural decision at the Supreme Court, but the justices pointedly did not decide the legality of the plan.Trump has long opposed mail voting and falsely blamed it for his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, even though he often uses that method to cast his own ballot, including as recently as this year.
>>1537016>Nazi news source various to differentiate between mail in ballot and absentee ballotWell isn't that interesting...
>>1537061Various = failsLike swipe on this phone fails
>>1537061But this is AP, not Breitbart?Marge moment
>>1537013Watch as he does it anyway.
>>1537106Fine by me. One election without ballot harvesting would be nice for the citizens of the afflicted states.
>>1537106That's my prediction. Why would you care about the law when you're trying to rig an election? Since when does Trump care about the law anyway?
Its not over. The msm lies all the time about trump. They said KKKillary had a 99% chance of winning in 2016. Trump proved em wrong. Trump defies the odds. He's the 5d chess master. He's always won. He's always been right. He wins 100% of the time, even when it looks like hes lost. I've learned to have faith in this man and it's paid off immensely. Trump will win, he always does. They dont call him the Teflon Don for nothing,
>>1537133Conservatives never cared about the rule of law, only power, so of course he's going to do it.Or worse, claim the next repudiation against him at the ballot was rigged and order Republicans to refuse to seat the incoming members of congress, setting off another coup.
>>1537133It's not just about caring about the law, it's the complete lack of real consequences.
Another 5 weeksof counting ballots that have no provenance.
>>1537135Oh yeah, they're already setting up for that.This is what I'm talking about. You can't vote out fascists that don't care about the law. Everyone is refusing to talk about the possibility of them just going "lol nah." >>1537137Same thing, really.
he's just going to do it anyway, isn't he?fucking hell
>>1537139>>1537137That's the problem with the fact America has only a choice between a center-right and fringe right wing party. And the center-right is desperate to keep sweeping things under the rug without doing any accountability. It's how Reagan, Bush,and Bush jr got away scott free and Biden had to be shamed into doing something about trump but because he dragged his feet so much he still go away. Basically if we manage to survive trump, the next president needs to prosecute not only him, but everyone who enabled him day one or it's beyond over.
>>1537191My Democrat uncle says the same thing.
>>1537191We are literally starting the process of gutting this system with the sweeping wins by democratic socialists that have unseated incumbent shill scumfuck status quo dems.Fuck your fucking idiotic, cliche apathy. Vote blue. Vote more than once every four years. Put your fucking big boy pants on and understand that's just part of your duty as an American citizen.
>>1537191>the next president needs to prosecute not only him, but everyone who enabled him day one or it's beyond over.Obama tried to do this with the FBI during Trump's first term. Long story short, we now have multi-ethnic fascism. So maybe don't?
