Donald Trump is the biggest and most famous election criminal in American history, the only president of the United States in history to call the Secretary of State of Georgia and ask him to commit an election crime.
Trump said this on the phone…
“All I want to do is this. I just want to find, Uh, eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty votes, which is one more that we have.”
Only a criminal would say that. But apparently, the Republican Supreme Court and Natalie Harp are just totally cool with that.
Donald Trump issued an executive order attempting to corrupt elections. Donald Trump issued an executive order trying to prevent me from voting by mail and for preventing thirty percent of Americans who vote by mail, at least the ones who vote Democratic. Donald Trump issued an executive order creating a list of voters who would be allowed to vote by mail, a federal list of voters who would be allowed to vote by mail, created by the president, created by the Department of Homeland Security, which, according to the Supreme Court, is the president.
Donald Trump is personally in control of everything the federal government does, according to this Supreme Court. The only the people on that list created by Donald Trump would have Donald Trump’s permission to vote by mail. No one else would have that permission to vote by mail.
Donald Trump’s executive order specifies the design of the envelopes for voting by mail. That is a direct intervention for the first time in history by the President of the United States in our voting process. Those envelopes are controlled by the states and the counties that produce those envelopes. And so far, the Republicans on the United States Supreme Court think that all of that’s okay.
The United States of America has never had the slightest problem with the integrity of voting by mail. There is no need for a presidential executive order about election integrity on voting by mail. And there’s also no conceivable constitutional basis for a presidential executive order about election integrity, so-called, because as the judges in the lower courts handling this case pointed out, the Constitution gives the President of the United States no role in elections anywhere.
The Republicans on the Supreme Court say that it was just too soon for states to object to Donald Trump ordering the Postal Service to come up with rules for mail in ballots because when the lawsuit was filed, the Postal Service had not yet.
The Supreme Court says if Donald Trump convinces the Postal Service to issue an illegal rule, only then can the states sue Donald Trump and begin to object to that.
The Republicans on the Supreme Court wrote: quote, Federal courts review final rules, not proposed rules. If the Postal Service’s final rule harms the states, they may challenge that rule.
And so the Supreme Court opinion says: quote,
“if the Postal Service’s final rule harms the states, they may challenge that rule.”
The Postal Service issued their final rule on Friday.
The Postal Service rule issued on Friday says that the Postal Service will not deliver my mail if they don’t like the envelope that I use. Delivery of the mail has always been a sacred federal duty, and interference with delivery of the mail is a federal crime.
So, the people now get to challenge Trumps Executive order, thanks to the ruling of the Supreme Court.
For every frustrating story about something getting lost in the mail, there are those remarkable miracles achieved.
Consider this…
Donald Trump will get his mail in ballot, and he’ll use it.
His mail in ballot will be delivered.
But what about mine? What about yours?
The fight against Donald Trump’s voter suppression executive order will continue in court. Now that the rule, the Postal Service issued on Friday, is final, the Supreme Court will not be able to say it is still too soon to fight that rule in court.
And so it will be fought in court. Guess who will fight first?
The governor of the state with the largest number of mail-in ballots in this country said,
“Wow, the Supreme Court just let the Trump administration move ahead for now with its plan to disenfranchise voters across the country.”
California will be suing again to block these rules from being implemented.
And it will be another case for the realists on the Supreme Court, Keanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, versus the Natalie Harps of the Supreme Court, the believers that Donald Trump can do no wrong even after they have seen the wrong, even after they have heard him do the wrong in that phone call for the Georgia Secretary of State.
As one of his social media facilitators, Natalie Harp is with Trump most of the day and often in evenings, and she never takes a day off.
The Times – Maggie Haberman calls Harp the Binky of the Man Child president. The dark and deranged section of the United States Supreme Court, which might as well be led by Chief Justice Natalie Harp, actually pretends to believe that Donald Trump spends his day working on, of all things, election integrity.
More weirdness out of this. Supreme Court. In one sense, it’s a nothing of a decision because there were two lower court proceedings. One was brought by the Democrat Attorneys General. That covered the states of those attorneys general. That was the one where the order was stayed. But there’s another one that was brought by advocacy groups that covers all 50 states. And that order still stands, so it really doesn’t have much effect. And in the ordinary course, and in front of an ordinary court, you’d think, okay, no big deal. But the fuss in this case that caught all of the Republican justices’ attention was the difference between a proposed order and a final order, which is a fairly minor technicality against that are 50 states with state run elections and state election officials who have to prepare for an election in November and who are entitled to know what the rules are going to be about mail in ballots sooner rather than later. When you put those two things in balance, you think it would easily come down on just waving off that decision, particularly when the final rule is, in fact, now out. And then you get into the background of all of this, which is postmasters generals have never had a role in elections. The states have a role in elections.
So it’s a huge shift from state to federal power. And it gives an election authority to an individual who’s never had it before. And then, of course, it’s a prior restraint on access to the mail for certain voters. And it’s really always been the case.