SCOTUS Decision On Mail-In Ballots Nearing

 

A key decision is expected this week from the Republican-dominated Supreme Court on the corrupt and unhinged Malignant Fascist's attempt to suppress voting in the upcoming mid-term elections.  The MF is asking the Court to permit the Postal Service to regulate who receives mail-in ballots and who doesn't.  Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, writing in her Substack, reports:

"Last Monday, the Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court to let the Trump administration implement Trump’s executive order that would allow, among other things, federal control over who can and can’t receive a ballot in the mail. A district judge in Massachusetts enjoined the EO from going into effect for now. The Solicitor General is asking the Supreme Court to stay that injunction, which would permit the Trump administration to move forward with the EO while the cases challenging it move through the courts. [snip]

A response is due from the states that oppose the EO by 4 p.m. ET on Monday. They are: California, Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania (through its governor, Josh Shapiro). The formal issue before the Court is whether it should stay the lower court’s injunction barring federal agencies from fully implementing Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting.

One important issue when a party seeks an injunction, like the blue states did in the lower court, is showing the irreparable injury is imminent without one. Here that was challenging. The EO was in place, but the question was whether the federal government was taking sufficiently malicious steps towards implementing it to merit an injunction. Not what might happen in the future, but what was happening now. So the administration, and the red states, present everything in the most benign terms possible and the government has made careful efforts to hold off on steps that would clearly trigger court action for now. The concern is that they will act as we get closer to the midterm elections, that they are preparing now to take steps, perhaps too close to the election for state AGs and the courts to effectively counter them." (our emphasis)

The MF will do anything to rig the mid-terms in his favor, knowing that he and his party are facing an angry public eager to vote them out.  If, as Vance suggests, the MF's regime acts on the mail-in ballot issue too late for States to stop them through the courts before the mid-terms, the damage done to our elections will be lasting, and the MF will escape accountability once again.  We're not expecting the MAGAfied Supreme Court to do the right thing and uphold the injunction.  Stay tuned.