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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
Y'know, I wonder how much this particular legal warfare isn't moot & a piss diversion from the fact that #SCOTUS ruled a while back that USPS postal servers can choose not to deliver mail to any person they want without consequence.
https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/supreme-court-rules-the-postal-service-cant-be-sued-even-when-mail-is-intentionally-not-delivered
@heidilifeldman How does all this affect Oregon that is by and large only mail-in voting?
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/
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