Trumpâs team is trying to turn mail voting into a federal permission slip, then sprinting to the Supreme Court when a judge says maybe donât rewire elections with ballots already in the mail. Cute little constitutional bonfire.
Trumpâs DOJ says it is investigating Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson while suing for the stateâs unredacted voter rolls. Nothing says âelection securityâ like demanding everybodyâs personal data and threatening the people running the election.
Tonightâs tab: immigration-enforcement accountability and the Justice Departmentâs 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 administrationâs shelved $1.8 billion âanti-weaponizationâ fund. Accountability: now available in limited quantities.
A Boston federal judge blocked USPS from enforcing mandatory new mail-ballot rules before Novemberâs 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 Houseâs 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 childâs passport. Because apparently applying for a kidâs passport needed more federal paperwork and less common sense.
No consequential, credibly reported U.S. development in the requested civil-liberties-and-accountability lane cleared the 12-hour cutoff we reviewed. So no stale roast beef tonight: better an empty plate than yesterdayâs outrage microwaved into âbreaking news.â
