Pubs work on plans to outright steal next election.

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Of course, doesn't everyone?


Isn't that pretty much the whole point of PAC'S?

They're unregulated.

Think of the PAC national ads during the NFL season.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaeeryvVkK0

The point of the HI law is to take away that PAC power. The courts will ultimately decide. Idk whether it will work on the interstate example you cite.

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This has been a DonOLD priority for months:

Senate blocks Trump-backed SAVE America Act as four Republicans join Democrats

... The amendment, introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, as part of a nearly $70 billion immigration enforcement funding package, failed in a 48-50 vote, falling short of the 60 votes required for passage. Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina joined all Democrats in opposing the measure.

60 votes, it never had a chance no matter what the honorable four Repubs did. When history looks at how rotten Moscow Mitch was for America these last couple of years he's established a "Yeah, but ..." defense.

... Trump has repeatedly promoted the SAVE America Act, describing it as his top legislative priority. On Thursday, June 4, he again urged Congress to pass the measure while speaking from the Oval Office, prior to the Senate voting....

:---P :violin:

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I'm not sure if this is legal:

Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive

[O Really]

I'm not sure if this is legal:

Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive

I'm quite sure it's not, but when did that ever matter to trumpers?

[GoCubsGo]

I'm not sure if this is legal:

Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive

I'm quite sure it's not, but when did that ever matter to trumpers?

They have zero problems with willingly breaking the law and delay, delay, delay in the courts as a strategy.

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They have zero problems with willingly breaking the law and delay, delay, delay in the courts as a strategy.

Then, they take brazen advantage of what MAGASCOTUS has made newly "legal".

Trump fires Election Assistance Commission members ahead of midterms

... The official added that the Trump administration has ​been "working ​across all agencies and local partners to safeguard elections from fraud and abuse, ​and investing in a strong infrastructure to sustain that ‌mission especially in the midterm elections."

:bs: Elections ARE secure and the vast majority of fraud and abuse has come from MAGAts and other RepuQs.

DonOLD is doing everything he can to corrupt the Midterms and 2028, and he may succeed. :angry-banghead:

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‘Got to be kidding me’: GOP officials pan Trump’s claims of shocking new election threats

:---P

Does Moron Don care when his "very very very important" speech flops, even among RepuQs?

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Democracy-hating, illegal MAGA thwarted, again.

US appeals court rules Trump cannot implement mail-in voting order


Supporters gather outside the federal courthouse after a hearing in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 2, 2026.

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The Dementia Don/Moscow Mitch stacked SCOTUS assaults democracy again.

Supreme Court for now allows Trump to plan new mail ballot rules. California to sue again

:sick:

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Is voting by mail saved?

One of the Supreme Court’s worst ideas could save the midterms from Trump

Well, that was quick.

On Thursday evening, federal district Judge Indira Talwani issued a new order that temporarily blocks an effort by the Trump administration that appears designed to sabotage voting by mail in the upcoming midterm election. Talwani previously blocked an executive order that President Donald Trump issued in March, which ordered the US Postal Service (USPS) to impose a byzantine array of new regulations on voting by mail, but the Supreme Court reinstated the order on Monday.

Talwani's new order sets up a new legal fight that is almost certain to return to the justices, and it is unclear whether this Court, with its 6-3 Republican majority, will allow Trump to make sweeping and unilateral changes to how the United States conducts its elections so close to an actual Election Day.

That said, while Talwani's new order in League of Women Voters v. Trump is brief, it is well-crafted to persuade at least some members of the Court's Republican majority to break with the leader of their political party.

Talwani relies on a fairly new legal concept known as the "major questions doctrine," that the Court's Republican majority invented in the later part of the Obama administration, and that the Court has only actually used against one president: Joe Biden. Briefly, the doctrine claims that the executive branch may not make policy changes that are too sweeping or too aggressive, often even if a federal statute appears to give it the power to do so.

As the Court summarized this idea in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (2014), the first Supreme Court decision to articulate the major questions doctrine, "we expect Congress to speak clearly if it wishes to assign to an agency decisions of vast 'economic and political significance.'" ...

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Is voting by mail saved?
One of the Supreme Court’s worst ideas could save the midterms from Trump

Except...

A whistleblower is warning of "potentially catastrophic problems" with the U.S. Postal Service's new system for handling mail ballots. The whistleblower is accusing the agency of flouting court rulings by continuing to work on implementing a Trump executive order to tighten mail voting rules before the November midterm elections.

Described by lawyers as a federal official, the anonymous whistleblower revealed the information about the Postal Service's mail-voting procedures in a disclosure provided to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that was made public Tuesday. In response, Blumenthal is now questioning Postmaster General David Steiner about the Postal Service's development of a new online portal to house information about voters and their mail ballots.

"The main takeaway for me is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans," Blumenthal told reporters. "One third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail, and the USPS puts all of their votes at risk."

[GoCubsGo]

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They don't even bother to try and be subtle anymore.

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https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/20 ... 6045625392

We may be safe from USPS/ICE manipulation of this election, maybe.

Election official Trump once asked to 'find 11,780 votes' gives SCOTUS an off-ramp on USPS rule, notes 'ballots are already going into the mail'

Yeesh, could be a mess.

They don't even bother to try and be subtle anymore.

https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2094994788252545218

In some places voters have reacted by showing up in massive numbers creating long lines of democracy defenders. We'll see.

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Supreme Court won’t let Postal Service restrict mail ballots

... “The government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court’s preliminary injunction,” the court said in its one-paragraph order....

:---P

Sophia Lin Lakin, voting rights project director at the American Civil Liberties Union, which helped to represent some of the challengers to the USPS rule, welcomed today’s decision.

“This administration keeps testing the limits of its power, as if the rules governing our elections are merely suggestions to ignore when they don’t suit the president’s agenda. But the Constitution gives states and Congress the power to set the rules for federal elections — not the president, and not the Postal Service,” she said.

“Today is a good day for democracy, the rule of law and the American people looking to exercise their constitutional right to vote,” said California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose state led one of the lawsuits against the rule. “Trump’s attacks on democracy these last 20 months have been nothing short of un-American,” Newsom added.

:thumbup: :thumbup:

... Talwani imposed an injunction on Sept. 4 blocking the rule, finding that it likely violated the U.S. Constitution, under which states administer elections. Talwani also said it would be impossible for the states to comply given the rapidly approaching midterms.

The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused last Thursday to put Talwani’s order on hold. The 1st Circuit said that the rule “will likely result in the disenfranchisement of millions of voters across the country while providing minimal — if any — gains in combating voter fraud.”

Nichols granted a request from the Democratic Party and groups including the NAACP for a preliminary injunction blocking the rule. Nichols wrote that the rule could make it harder for some people to vote by mail and that it exceeded the Postal Service’s authority.

“No statute grants the Postal Service the power to issue key parts of the rule,” Nichols wrote....

Heroes all. :clap:

On cue. He's so easy :crybaby:

Trump slams the Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots

:violin:


Joe Manchin says he supports Republican candidates in battleground Senate races in Maine and Michigan

Who?

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NC mail ballots are going out this week, first in the nation.
:happy-cheerleaderkid:

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The Supreme Court just threw a new monkey wrench at the midterms. Here’s what to know

:angry-banghead: :obscene-birdiered:

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They don't even bother to try and be subtle anymore.

https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2094994788252545218

They're democracy-hating illegals, again:

Judge orders DOJ to stop threatening to prosecute election officials

... U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson also ordered the Trump administration to cease demanding that election workers remove voters from statewide rolls, refuse to issue ballots to specific voters or segregate ballots cast in the midterms based on the administration's claims that some voters are ineligible.

"Because the public has a paramount interest in ensuring that election officials and workers are able to carry out their work in accordance with federal law and election procedure, and the official day of the Elections is only a couple of days away, the balance of the equities and public interest weigh in Plaintiffs' favor," Thompson wrote.

Thompson, a San Francisco-based Biden appointee, issued the temporary restraining order in connection with a lawsuit brought by the Service Employees International Union and other groups. Her directive also requires the DOJ to reach out to any state or local officials who received warnings about possible prosecution and inform them that "demands and threats of prosecution to election officials and workers … have been enjoined."

GoTrinaGo!

... Thompson's order effectively enforces a stern warning issued to the Trump administration by another California-based federal judge, David Carter, earlier this week. "These threats must stop," Carter wrote in a ruling that threw out the Justice Department's effort to compel California to set aside any ballots cast by up to 20,000 people federal officials had identified as likely noncitizens. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday declined to set aside Carter's order.

Thompson's new directive also follows an order by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., to require the Trump administration to provide the list of those 20,000 purported noncitizens to an immigrant advocacy group. Boasberg's order was rooted, in part, on the group's claim that the Trump administration's threats were influencing the conduct of state and local elected officials.

GoJudges Carter and BoasbergGo! DoJ is busted 3-0.

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Democracy-hating illegal is stymied, again.

Judge tosses Trump suit to pre-emptively challenge Alaska vote results

... Chief Judge Sharon Gleason of the U.S. District Court in Alaska in her ruling said states run elections.

Gleason also ruled a probe of voters' intentions likely violated voters' right to a secret ballot.

"The absence of any explanation from the United States as to how its requested relief could redress its alleged injury while simultaneously maintaining the secrecy of the ballot is telling," wrote Gleason, a nominee of former President Barack Obama....

Burn.

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The incompetence admin:

Over 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens are not on Calif. voter rolls, analysis finds

This should make their entire voter suppression effort less successful once it reaches the courts.