Originally published at: Judge Blocks Key Portions of Trump’s Attempt to Take Over Mail-In Voting for Half the States - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A U.S. district judge on Thursday blocked the crux of President Donald Trump’s March executive order, which ordered the creation of a federal citizen list and dictated to whom the Postal Service can send absentee ballots. Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee in Massachusetts, found that those components of the order exceed the president’s power…
Fascists never give up. They just try new ways to achieve their goals.
“Antifa, We Hardly Knew Ye!”
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As long as SCROTUS doesn’t invoke the shadow docket to let the EO stand until it gets sorted out in court years from now, this is good news.
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"Postmaster General David Steiner testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, saying that in accordance with its proposed rule, the Postal Service would not deliver absentee ballots to states that don’t hand over voter and citizenship information to be compiled into some kind of federal list. "
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Where in the Constitution does it give power to the Post Office to determine who is a citizen and who is not. Further… by what law can the Post Office decide who can and cannot vote? Years ago I voted at polling places, not a post office. Now that I am disabled an do not own a car I am dependent on friends to drive me to my county recorder’s office as I cannot trust the post office with my ballot
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And another federal judge in DC barred him from compiling his “certified “ voters list two days ago.
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I am really tired of journalists taking Trump Executive Orders as seriously as they do. An Executive Order can’t overturn anything in the Constitution. Period. Full Stop.
Journalists should lead with that simple observation.
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I’d love for a judge to rule against them at some point with the reasoning being, “Because that’s just fucking stupid, and you know it.”
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The Post Master is going to have some angry military service members, many republicans, to answer to.
That’s the most hair brained thing about Trump’s push against mail-in-voting. How indescriminate it is. He’s huffing his own farts if he thinks this only hurts Democrats. Fool has no idea what the net effect will be.
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I am disabled. I have no car. I depend on others for rides. I have little choice but to take my ballot to my County Recorder’s office as I cannot trust the fucking post office any more
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The mandate is to deliver the mail asshole. You don’t get to decide what kind of mail. But if you were to decide, how about you decide all the crap junk mail from right wing fascist organizations shouldn’t be delivered?
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I have long ago expected nothing but pure both siderism from the Corporate Press. They have abandon objective reporting of Republican administrations almost 2 decades ago (Does not apply to Democratic Adminstrations).
What concerns me is the corrupt members of the Supreme Court, aka the Calvin Ball 6. They are treating executive orders as law, even though they are not.
The Court needs to be bought to heel by Congress. And expanded.
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The Supreme Court needs to be reformed. They have taken on the role of an unaccountable unelected superlegislature owned by a few billionaies
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We should be so lucky.
More often than not, it’s one siderism, not both.
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