Yup!….
REPUBLICAN state officials , along with Democrats, tell the High Court to keep Trump’s efforts to disenfranchise 1/3 of the Midterm Voters ballots in check thru the US Post Office….
Mail-in Ballots are ALREADY going out….
The Post Office hasn’t even tested their hastily put together effort to limit voters mailed in ballots….
Republican chief election officials from seven states said that it’s too late for President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot order to be implemented before the midterm election, urging the Supreme Court to not allow the rule to go into effect in a brief submitted to the court on Wednesday.
Trump’s order, signed in March, aimed to crack down on mail-in voting and assert federal control ahead of November’s election. In August, the U.S. Postal Service released a final rule that would allow it to refuse delivering ballots to states that failed to provide lists of eligible voters or adhere to approved envelope styles.
Many election officials have already said Trump’s orders are “not feasible” given that ballots have already been sent out in North Carolina and other early states, but the public disagreement from elected Republicans is notable given how much the president has focused on mail voting.
Wednesday’s brief — which was also signed by current and former local election officials, many of whom are Republican — echoes the same concerns and urges the Supreme Court to ensure this election is conducted under the same rules used in 2024….
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The officials also cited the Purcell principle, a long-debated holding in federal court that broadly says that federal judges should refrain from causing confusion with late-stage changes to voting rules.
Under the mail-in order, officials said they foresee more confusion for voters, which would erode confidence in the results of the election. Helen Purcell, a former local elections official in Arizona who was a party in a legal battle that made her the namesake of the principle, also signed on to the briefing.
The Trump administration’s mail rule is currently being blocked by a preliminary injunction from a federal District Court judge in Boston. The Trump administration has now repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to set aside lower courts’ rulings and let the rule go into effect for the November election….
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