Category: voting by mail

Democracy Saved for Now because of Federal Court Ruling on Mail-in Ballots

Within the last few days, the federal court in Massachusetts blocked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing new restrictions on mail-in voting.

The court decision about the Trump Executive Order 14399, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” on March 31, 2026,  made just before the mid-terms is unconstitutional and not supported by Federal law. Trump believes he can push out Executive Orders whether they are constitutional or not, simply because he can and has the ultimate tool of “Presidential Immunity” which protects him from being prosecuted for his unconstitutional acts. Trumps order if carried out by the U.S. Postal Service which in it self in unprecedented, would disenfranchise voters. In Judge Talwani’s order, she noted that the President of the United States does not have any specific power over elections, asserting that election regulation is reserved for Congress and the states.

Trump’s tool of ‘the Executive Order’ has been grievously abused by him, as he has unlawfully used it in every sense possible to predict outcomes for his own enrichment and also for his family. NONE of the Executive Orders made in Trump’s second term would be for the benefit of the American people. You knew where he was going with such powers when he forgave the rioters of their attacks on the U.S. Capital building On Day ONE of his second term, then pardoning major criminals and convicted felons of confessed crimes since then. He would pardon himself if he can. He did it because he can with the power of his pen. Within the office of the President, he can perform any unlawful acts while performing his presidential duties. He knows that using the Executive Order as one of his presidential duties, he will not have to account for any unconstitutional orders in a court of law in the future. Some of the people he pardoned owned restitution for their crimes. They stole from the people, and were ordered to pay money back as part of their sentence upon conviction. But Trump’s order to free them from detention was that they also did not have to repay the people they stole money from. These actions confirm Trump as being on of the most corrupt presidents of all time. Criminals got to keep what that stole. These Executive Orders given and carried out cannot be contested under law. Judge Talwani has stopped Trumps Executive Order of interfering with elections has been stopped in its tracks before implementation.

Trump has issued just under 275 Executive Orders in his second term. This surpasses his orders of his first term, and signed 26 orders on his very first day in office in his second term, the highest number in presidential history. All of the people convicted of their crimes, even with people who confessed to those crimes, were pardoned by Trump, and in matter of fact, all January 6th offenders were pardoned by him. They were doing his bidding to openly state that the certification of Joe Biden could not take place and performing acts at the U.S. Capital never seen before in American history, unlawful acts  where defendants were prosecuted, but are now back on the streets to preform unlawful acts again, as some of them have been arrested again for additional crimes committed after their release.

Donald Trump has granted executive clemency to numerous friends, political allies, and associates across both of his presidential terms, a practice critics describe as using the pardon power to protect loyalists.

In his first and second terms, the following are just some of the people he pardoned from the crimes that they committed…

First Term (2017–2021)

  • Paul Manafort: Former campaign chairman, pardoned on his last day in office.
  • Roger Stone: Long-time ally, pardoned for lying to Congress. 
  • Michael Flynn: Former National Security Adviser, pardoned for lying to the FBI.
  • Charles Kushner: Father of son-in-law Jared Kushner, pardoned for tax evasion and witness tampering.
  • Dinesh D’Souza: Conservative commentator and friend, pardoned in 2018.
  • Elliott Broidy: Republican fundraiser, pardoned for lobbying-related charges. 

Second Term (2025–Present)

Since returning to office in 2025, Trump has continued granting clemency to allies and donors. Recent high-profile pardons include:

  • Rudy Giuliani: Former personal lawyer and NYC mayor, pardoned for obstruction of justice and other charges.
  • Mark Meadows: Former White House Chief of Staff, pardoned.
  • Todd and Julie Chrisley: Reality TV stars convicted of fraud, pardoned in May 2025.
  • Trevor Milton: Founder of Nikola Motors, pardoned for securities fraud.
  • Changpeng Zhao: Binance founder, whose ties to Trump family businesses have been noted. 

Regarding Trump’s latest Executive Order interfering with upcoming elections, Trump’s targeted effort to use the USPS would make it harder to vote. Meanwhile mail in ballots are already being mailed out.

In the mean time, Todd Blanche’s Department of Justice has filed a notice of appeal to the First Circuit. It is an expedited challenge that is expected to reach the Supreme Court by early next week. If Judge Talwani’s order is erased by the Supreme Court, so does democracy get erased. There will not be a free and fair election this fall.

It is Donald Trump’s only wild card left to subvert the upcoming election to prevent a mid-term disaster for Republicans. He knows the Republican party is doomed if the Supreme Court does not step in. When the American people vote this time as long as the Supreme Court does not interfere, Trump will immediately become a Lame Duck President, and the newly elected Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold Trump’s conspirators accountable.

Life for Donald Trump will be nothing less than miserable for the rest of his second term, including more up and coming impeachments, except when the impeachments reach the U.S. Senate, it is possible that Donald J. Trump can be voted out of  office. He would not face convictions, because Vice-President Vance who would now take office as President of the United States and would immediately pardon him of any of his crimes just like Republican President Gerald Ford did for President Richard Nixon who resigned in disgrace in his second term.

But for now, democracy has been saved.

Supreme Court Mail Voting Decision

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  wrong in that phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State when Trump lost re-election the first time.

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.