Discussion
New activity today in legal efforts to prevent Trump from unlawfully interfering with mail-in voting.
A reminder of what Trump is attempting: he’s trying to use the USPS to control who gets absentee/mail-in ballots. This is to throttle vote-from-home, which for many people has meant requesting a ballot be mailed to them, which they then complete and return by hand or mail. Trump is trying to limit who receives ballots by mail. 1/ #LawFedi
In addition to doing all he can to prevent Democrats taking control of the U.S. House and Senate this November, Trump is trying to expand his power to meddle in the 2028 election by getting the Roberts Court to tamper with established election law now. 2/
There are multiple lawsuits in multiple federal courts fighting Trump’s effort to violate the U.S. Constitution via the back door mechanism of the USPS. The Constitution makes states the primary authority on election administration, with a limited role for Congress. There is NO role for the federal executive branch. 3/
Monday, the Roberts Six vacated a Massachusetts District Court judge’s preliminary injunction against Trump’s to federalize control of state voting rolls and the mailed ballots process. Yesterday, plaintiffs in other lawsuits took action to get new injunctions in place. Today, the plaintiffs in the Mass District Court case have moved for such a new injunction, in light of the Trump regime, via USPS, taking definitive steps to operationalize Trump’s plan. 4/ #LawFedi
The case in federal court in Massachusetts is extremely significant because the plaintiffs are state attorney generals, defending the states’ Constitutional powers. California is the lead plaintiff. Other state plaintiffs listed on today’s filing. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.305406/gov.uscourts.mad.305406.3.0.pdf 5/
The plaintiff states are laser focused on stopping implementation of the USPS rule, finalized on Friday and published today, re mailed ballots. 6/
The USPS rule requires states to upend their procedures for mailing out ballots. With some states starting the process in early September and all already having spent months preparing and paying for their processes, this new rule would create chaos and expense. All designed to disrupt the elections, depress turnout, and give the Trump regime grounds to threaten to prosecute state election officials. 7/
The plaintiff states in Calif v. Trump, the case in Mass District Court, have therefore asked the judge for an expedited decision process on the plaintiffs’ new motion for a temporary injunction against the USPS rule being implemented. 8/
I’m impressed by and thankful for all the attorneys filing for new injunctions against Trump’s unlawful efforts to take over elections. They are fighting a Supreme Court controlled by the Roberts Six, which would like to keep denying anybody standing to challenge these efforts (as the Six did in vacating the prior injunction on Monday.) 9/
Democratic Party institutions and leaders, civic organizations, and the states are demonstrating, across different lawsuits, the harm to free and fair
elections Trump and USPS are doing, and the different ways the different plaintiffs are suffering real, concrete injury. 10/
The Roberts Six may of course ignore the plaintiffs’ showings and simply give Trump the greenlight to interfere with the election. But if so, the Six will clearly be on record as his enabler. That alone should be grounds for a new Congress to reform the Supreme Court and/or impeach and remove every one of the Six. 11/
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