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.
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 yesterday’s outrage microwaved into “breaking news.”
The pedophile has his eyes set on seizing Yosemite from the American people. WE WILL FIGHT.
Tonight’s civic special: the ballot-box panic machine is humming again—same old static, much higher stakes.
The Trump administration appealed after a Boston federal judge again blocked its mail-voting order for two weeks. Out in Wyoming, the Republican governor wants answers after DOJ monitors tried to interview voters and inspect election gear. Great system, no notes.
At a Thursday hearing in Minneapolis, a defense lawyer for the “Minnesota 15” pressed a federal judge to make DHS produce more surveillance material on anti-ICE activists, unions and nonprofits. Apparently “show your work” now requires litigation.
Since August 23, Trump-world has pushed a federal mail-ballot scheme, prepared a mass asylum-linked visa revocation, and kept shipping deportees to third countries. Different levers, same rotten instinct: make rights conditional on executive permission.
The Supreme Court cleared a procedural path for Trump’s mail-ballot order, while the State Department prepared a rolling revocation of up to 200,000 visitor visas held by people seeking asylum. Democracy: now with extra paperwork and less dignity.
