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  1. Judge Blocks Mail Rule for the Second Time in Widening Legal Fight

    A federal judge blocked the mail ballot rule pushed by the Trump administration for the second time, deepening its legal trouble before the midterms.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/elect

  2. Judge Blocks Mail Rule for the Second Time in Widening Legal Fight

    A federal judge blocked the mail ballot rule pushed by the Trump administration for the second time, deepening its legal trouble before the midterms.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/elect

  3. She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”

    #law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy

  4. The trial court judge, Indira Talwani, wrote that the legal challenge to the #USPS plan by Democratic-led states & voter rights organizations was likely to succeed. The groups had argued the plan violated the #Constitution’s #SeparationOfPowers, which gives #states & #Congress responsibility over #elections, not the executive.

    #law #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy

  5. Voter Intimidation at the Polls: What Every American Should Know Before November

    Voter intimidation at the polls is a federal crime. Here is what the law says and what to do if ICE or any federal agent tries to interfere on Election Day.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/curre

  6. …The official at the #USPS raised “grave concerns” in the report that the verification process in the system could reject tens of thousands of ballots in a bulk-mailing batch if “even one bar code on one single ballot” failed to properly scan, & that the rushed, “slapdash” development of the system would significantly increase the chance of errors & other failures in the verification process.

    #Trump #law #Constitution #states #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #midterms #BigLie #coup #USpol

  7. Speaking to reporters by phone, Blumenthal said of the report that “the main takeaway for me is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans. One-third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail, & the #USPS puts all of their votes at risk.”

    #Trump #law #Constitution #states #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #midterms #BigLie #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #USpol

  8. “Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the official said in the report, which was prepared with the assistance of Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit group that represents people seeking to expose potential lawbreaking.

    #Trump #law #Constitution #states #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #midterms #VoterSuppression #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #USpol

  9. #SCOTUS majority found the Democratic lawsuit was premature, but that was before the #Trump admin issued a rule governing #USPS delivery of #MailBallots. #Election officials warn it will be impossible to implement in the days before the first wave of mail ballots are sent out next week.

    #law #Constitution #states #federalism #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #elections #VoterSuppression #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #USpol

  10. #Texas #Democrats evacuated from Illinois hotel over potential #BombThreat
    
“We are safe, we are secure, & we are undeterred,” said caucus leaders after police searched the hotel where some of the lawmakers who had fled
    Texas to block the redrawing of the congressional map were staying.

    #law #Trump #StochasticTerrorism #GregAbbott #Republicans #PoliticalViolence #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #elections
    usatoday.com/story/news/politi