Yesterday, a Federal District Court judge in Boston slapped a permanent injunction on one of the vindictive conman and mentally unfit Malignant Fascist's attempts to rig the mid-term elections and beyond. From ABC News:
"A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago, in which she temporarily blocked many of Trump’s efforts to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban.
Casper rejected the administration’s argument that the lawsuit to block the changes brought by Democratic state attorneys general was premature because the rules had yet to be implemented. Instead, she agreed that the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to regulate elections, and that Trump’s requirements violated the separation of powers.
The Constitution "does not grant the President any specific powers over elections,” she wrote.
Among other proposed changes, Trump’s order would have required people to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote, prevented mail ballots from being counted if they arrive after Election Day, even if they were postmarked by then, and punished states that failed to comply by withholding certain federal money." (our emphasis)
In a related matter, in March, the MF ordered the U.S. Postal Service to propose a rule that States had to turn over their registered voter rolls to the USPS at least 60 days before Federal elections, or the USPS would not deliver ballots in States that don't comply. Trumpist Postmaster General David Steiner appeared before a Senate committee yesterday to justify the desperate, egregious move by the MF to curtail mail in votes in non-complying (i.e., "blue" states). That should prompt another Federal lawsuit to block this attempt at election rigging.
With each week, MAGAT hopes fade as a Dem wave election in looming, and the MF knows unless he rigs the mid-terms, he'll face investigations, subpoenas and likely impeachment for his actions.
UPDATE: In a separate ruling this morning, Federal District judge Indira Talwani enjoined the MF regime from implement its vote rigging attempts with the USPS. Decision here.
(photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios, photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)
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