Boston’s First Circuit kept a USPS mail-ballot rule blocked, the Supreme Court knocked out Missouri’s Trump-backed map, and the Fourth Circuit rejected ICE’s no-bond detention theory. Another evening where the Constitution is doing overtime with no onion rings.
Trump’s team is trying to turn mail voting into a federal permission slip, then sprinting to the Supreme Court when a judge says maybe don’t rewire elections with ballots already in the mail. Cute little constitutional bonfire.
Trump’s DOJ says it is investigating Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson while suing for the state’s unredacted voter rolls. Nothing says “election security” like demanding everybody’s personal data and threatening the people running the election.
Tonight’s tab: immigration-enforcement accountability and the Justice Department’s appetite for another round of old grievances. Keep the onion rings; bring the receipts.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court again to revive USPS mail-ballot restrictions after a Massachusetts judge blocked them. With ballots already headed out, the government says chaos; election officials say, buddy, you built the chaos.
It’s Labor Day and Donald Trump is working hard betraying his country at his roach motel in Florida.
ICE obtained court permission to force-feed a detained Cuban hunger striker in Texas, while a federal judge ordered discovery into the administration’s shelved $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Accountability: now available in limited quantities.
A Boston federal judge blocked USPS from enforcing mandatory new mail-ballot rules before November’s midterms, finding challengers likely to win on claims that the agency barged into election administration without Congress handing it the keys.
A Maryland judge blocked the White House’s latest birthright-citizenship workaround, ruling the government cannot deny citizenship to certified class members the Supreme Court already said are citizens. Remarkable stuff: reading the assignment.
Reuters reports the State Department has drafted guidance that could make parents prove citizenship or immigration status when seeking a child’s passport. Because apparently applying for a kid’s passport needed more federal paperwork and less common sense.
