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Court Allows Trump to Pursue Mail Voting Limits, for Now
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trumpâs order that creates âstate citizenship listsâ and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with plans to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections.
In an emergency opinion, the justices said President Trump could proceed with implementing an executive order he had signed, which directed the U.S. Postal Service to help decide which voters should receive mail-in ballots. Under the executive order, the Department of Homeland Security will also create lists of U.S. citizens that the administration believes could be used to monitor voter rolls for noncitizens.
The decision means the administration can move ahead with planning for restricting the use of mail ballots even as a lower court continues to weigh the legality of Mr. Trumpâs executive order. But with a little more than two months until Election Day â and considerably less time before early voting begins in many states â it remains unclear whether the White Houseâs rules will be in effect for a midterm election in which control of both chambers is at stake. Additional legal action is a near certainty with the planâs fate not yet final.
A separate injunction by the same lower court complicates matters. That court action prevents the postal service from implementing some parts of the executive order. That case could also soon be headed to the justices.
Mondayâs order from the Supreme Court was unsigned, as is typical in such emergency rulings. The majority wrote that it agreed with the governmentâs argument that it should be able to move forward with its plans, finding that the Trump administration was âlikely to suffer irreparable harmâ unless the justices lifted a freeze that had been imposed by lower courts.
The three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warning that the majority âneedlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections.â
The majority said the states that challenged the presidentâs order could not demonstrate that they were sufficiently harmed by voting rules that had not yet taken effect. The justices cautioned that their order was preliminary and not a final decision about whether the administrationâs order âwill necessarily be lawfulâ once the plans are complete. âOn that score, time will tell,â the majority said in the 10-page, unsigned order.
The Supreme Courtâs conservative majority has been receptive to some, but not all, of the administrationâs broad claims of executive power. In this case, the majority said that the provision of Mr. Trumpâs order that required creating lists of U.S. citizens was âan internal directive from the president to a subordinateâ and so far imposed no obligations on the states.
An important thing missing from the article is how many records were actually manually reviewed. Very different conclusion if they manually reviewed 500 records to "confirm" 185 registrants as non-citizens vs. reviewing 10,000 records to come up with the same result.
Of course, that doesn't mean that their review methodology was correct and that there were actually 185 non-citizens registered and whether those people actually voted. The whole process is not transparent and probably bullshit.
Also note that even 16,000 votes out of the low turnout midterm primary is only about 3.5 % of the votes cast and unlikely to make any difference, even if they all voted the same way. For a general election with higher turnout the impact would be even less and the "confirmed" 185 is nothing.
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â Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) August 21, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Dear American Beef Producers,
I made a special deal for foreign sellers to undercut you. My tariffs and other actions raised prices, and I want burgers to look cheaper ahead of the election.
Also, expect extra high feed and transportation costs next year due to my war.
You're welcome.
Best,
DJT (satirical quote - actual post below)
â Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) August 21, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Red_Dragon wrote:
Yeah, but what about Biden, eh? WhataboutHIM!?!?!
Yes, I know he hasn't been in office for two years, but all of this is still his fault and Barack HUSSEIN Obama's fault. Everyone is saying it.
MOST PEOPLE STILL SUPPORTING TRUMP AREN'T STUPID. THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE IS.
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"There isnât a sufficient excuse for being an adult so sheltered from facts and so truth-deprived that you canât see Trumpâs complete sociopathy and you canât discern the existential threat he and his party are to this nation."
That's funny. Why ? Because SUV's don't have trunks.
More fake news. You're too smart to be this stupid ... or are you ?
SUVs don't have trunks, but they do have cargo spaces.
If the SUV in question was a Chevy Suburban (heavily used by the Secret Service and nicknamed "battle wagon"), the SUV would have a massive amount of storage space.
If the SUV was a "Camp Package" Cadillac Escalade—relatively new to the Secret Service fleet—it would not much spare room due to communications equipment, medical supplies, and automatic weapons stored in the back.
CNN confirmed the story about Harp in the trunk/cargo space with two sources and a photograph.
I think if he ever had any plans for the military to keep him in power, he's well on the way to making that not happen.
100%. Although I'm sure that thought has been seen chittering in the corners of his mind, he also has never missed a chance to insult them. Suckers, losers, fat, whatever. If he wants their undying loyalty, they need to eat steaks while laughing at us commons, and not have to have lefty libtards come to their rescue.
