Democrats sued Wednesday to block Donald Trumpās latest executive order restricting mail voting, arguing that the U.S. Constitution empowers states and Congress, not the president, to determine who is eligible to vote by mail.
The lawsuit marks the second round of battles over the presidentās power to control elections. Trumpās opponents handily won the first round last year, blocking his initial executive order intended to reshape election procedures by convincing multiple federal judges that it was likely unconstitutional.
Trump on Tuesday announced that his administration would compile lists of who is eligible to vote in states and that the U.S. Postal Service would only mail ballots to those who met that criteria. Critics note that thereās little time to comb through voter rolls before ballots start going out for this fallās elections, in some places as soon as September, and question whether the administrationās list would be reliable.
Iām not saying you said that. Iām saying to cease telling the news would be giving in to malaise and burying oneās head in the sand. Thatās why this is news. Because what the news does is report things that happen. This happened.
Okay, that makes sense.
Then let me put it another way: Personally, Iām tired of reading articles that fuel hope that an obviously corrupt system will actually work.
Personally, I donāt believe that the oligarchy surrounding Trumpāand least of all Trump himselfāwill accept defeat, even in the midterms. Personally, I believe it will take significantly more activism than relying on ācourt rulings to restore the rule of lawā when the other side has obviously long since started playing dirty.