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The Simplest Way for the Supreme Court to Rule in the USPS Mail Ballots Case

Two weeks ago, in Trump v. California, the Supreme Court held that a suit brought by several states to…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Democracy #Elections #Federalism #litigation #RuleofLaw #UnitedStates #Us #us-postal-service #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/724741/

For a THIRD time a federal Judge blocks #Trump #MailBallot rules

The ruling arrived before #SCOTUS could decide whether to intervene but is certain to set off yet another round of appeals.

#law #USPS #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #Federalism #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/politics/judge-blocks-trump-mail-ballots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.A-R9.sAMVAiZs_Jl1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Trump asked #SCOTUS Thursday to give the #USPS sweeping power to withhold delivery of #MailBallots, setting up an extraordinary showdown over #voting at the high court less than 2 months before the November #midterms.

#law #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #states #Federalism #ElectionLaw #elections #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/politics/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-ok-sweeping-changes-for-mail-ballots

#Trump admin appeals latest ruling blocking his #MailVoting order from taking effect

The Trump admin is appealing a judge’s ruling that blocked limitations on mail voting before the midterm #elections, the latest twist in a court fight unfolding days before the first #states begin sending out #MailBallots.

#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #Constitution #Congress #Federalism #ElectionLaw #midterms #elections #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-voting-mail-ballots-midterms-executive-order-8ef4a669a50f3406481ffb8387ccad3c?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

Judge again blocks #Trump #MailBallot executive order in ruling that’s likely to be swiftly appealed

#law #judiciary #SCOTUS #Constitution #states #federalism #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #midterms #elections #VoterSuppression #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #WhiteSupremacy #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-voting-mail-ballots-democrats-lawsuits-15cf1ec7dcdb8211bf6b624b75a7f4ab?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

#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

Democratic #states file new lawsuit seeking to block #Trump order limiting #MailVoting in #midterms

The action, filed by about two dozen states against the #USPS, marked a new phase in the high-stakes litigation just 2 days after #SCOTUS ruled against them in a separate case, but did not say Trump’s order was #legal [jackasses].

#law #Constitution #states #federalism #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #elections #VoterSuppression #BigLie #WhiteSupremacy #coup #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-voting-mail-ballots-midterms-executive-order-7ed54dda90705ff169d0a022f6a1dde9?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

Multi-phase strategy aimed at reshaping #Somalia's political & expanding central authority is fueling debate across #HornOfAfrica. The allegations raise questions about #Federalism, regional stability, foreign influence, #RedSeaSecurity & the future balance of power involving #Somaliland, #Puntland, #Jubaland, #Ethiopia, #Kenya, #Turkey, #Qatar & #Egypt. #Geopolitics #RegionalSecurity #EastAfrica

https://saxafimedia.com/strategic-plan-reshape-somalia-horn-underway/

United they fall. How Alberta got to voting on independence, and how Canada's government can prevent the country from fracturing:

https://reason.com/2026/05/07/why-oil-rich-alberta-may-secede-from-canada/

#Alberta #Canada #cultureWar #economics #federalism #geopolitics #oil #secession

[Repost] The split of Singapore was agreed upon by Malaya and Singapore, but excluding Sabah and Sarawak proved the partnership was one of domination, not equality. We must confront this history.

https://kalvin.my/deconstructing-the-narrative-singapores-exit-and-the-betrayal-of-ma63

#MA63 #Sabah #Sarawak #Singapore #History #Malaysia #Borneo #EastMalaysia #Justice #Autonomy #Federalism #Politics #HistoricalInjustice #Equality #Advocacy #CurrentAffairs #NoBot #FoundingPartners #SelfDetermination #PoliticalScience #ConstitutionalLaw #Accountability #Dignity #TunkuAbdulRahman #LeeKuanYew #Malaya #Partnership #Truth

[Repost] The split of Singapore was agreed upon by Malaya and Singapore, but excluding Sabah and Sarawak proved the partnership was one of domination, not equality. We must confront this history.

https://kalvin.my/deconstructing-the-narrative-singapores-exit-and-the-betrayal-of-ma63

#MA63 #Sabah #Sarawak #Singapore #History #Malaysia #Borneo #EastMalaysia #Justice #Autonomy #Federalism #Politics #HistoricalInjustice #Equality #Advocacy #CurrentAffairs #NoBot #FoundingPartners #SelfDetermination #PoliticalScience #ConstitutionalLaw #Accountability #Dignity #TunkuAbdulRahman #LeeKuanYew #Malaya #Partnership #Truth

[Repost] The argument that giving Sabah its 40% will bankrupt the Federal Government is an admission of systemic exploitation and fiscal failure. Sabah's dignity comes first.

https://kalvin.my/the-40-question-sabahs-right-vs-federal-excuses-a-matter-of-justice-not-charity

#Sabah #MA63 #Justice #Malaysia #Borneo #Federalism #Accountability #Rights #EastMalaysia #NaturalResources #OilAndGas #ConstitutionalLaw #SabahLawSociety #SLS #Putrajaya #Equity #Dignity #EconomicJustice #Advocacy #Activism #Politics #Development #CurrentAffairs #NoBot #Sabahans #Borneon #Malaysian #HumanRights #Poverty #SelfDetermination

On Romania visit, Orbán condemns EU federalism, LGBTQ ‘offensive’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/on-romania-visit-orban-condemns-eu-federalism-lgbtq-offensive/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #antiimmigration #EUfunds #Federalism #Hungary #illiberaldemocracy

Christophe Jaffrelot writes: BJP is chipping away at India’s federalism

Centralising tendencies have increased under the current government.

#federalism #UnionGovt #BJP #NarendraModi #modi #GST #demonetisation #CovidLockdown #KeralaFloods #delhi #uttarakhand #ChristopheJaffrelot #india

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/christophe-jaffrelot-writes-bjp-is-chipping-away-at-indias-federalism-8680814/

Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:

This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/republican-party-intrusive-government.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare