The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country, rebuffing a proposal that election officials warned would have had catastrophic consequences if allowed to take effect for this year’s midterms.
At this point, considering what they’ve enabled, my reaction is “there must be a gotcha in there somewhere”. That, or it’s as simple as them realizing they were moving the needle too far and too fast, and are pumping the brakes a bit, if only for appearances.
I’m kind of irretrievably jaded on the integrity of pretty much any branch of our government at this point.
I’m honestly unsure if there will even be elections in 2028. And even if there is, we all fucking saw what they tried to do on J6, and I clock it at a roughly 100% chance they’ll try the same shit again.
At any rate, the manner in which the midterms pan out (and I mean “whether the fascists find some idiotic legal fig leaf to use as a basis for excluding anyone but their own party from the national legislature” and “whether the electoral numbers going to be systematically fucked with”, in addition to “what the voting outcome is”) is going to be extremely telling.
The problem is the USPS “will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s picked up by agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots.”
They make good rulings all the time. It’s just usually when doing the right thing also happens to align with the court’s own interests. I can count on John Roberts to support his own interests, if nothing else. And it is not in the best interest of SCOTUS judges for the presidency to become a full dictatorship. If that happens, they lose all their power as well. They support a powerful presidency because a powerful presidency is the only way to push through unpopular social conservative policies. But they don’t want a full dictatorship either.
Did you want them to support disallowimg mail in ballots? I see this as a good ruling for democracy.
At this point, considering what they’ve enabled, my reaction is “there must be a gotcha in there somewhere”. That, or it’s as simple as them realizing they were moving the needle too far and too fast, and are pumping the brakes a bit, if only for appearances.
I’m kind of irretrievably jaded on the integrity of pretty much any branch of our government at this point.
I was thinking the same thing. Very possible mailin will be disallowed for 2028.
I’m honestly unsure if there will even be elections in 2028. And even if there is, we all fucking saw what they tried to do on J6, and I clock it at a roughly 100% chance they’ll try the same shit again.
At any rate, the manner in which the midterms pan out (and I mean “whether the fascists find some idiotic legal fig leaf to use as a basis for excluding anyone but their own party from the national legislature” and “whether the electoral numbers going to be systematically fucked with”, in addition to “what the voting outcome is”) is going to be extremely telling.
The problem is the USPS “will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s picked up by agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots.”
So the USPS, run by a trump appointee, gets to screen your ballot according to the info the trump admin gives them. That does not sound good at all imo. https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/politics/usps-whistleblower-mail-ballot-rules-trump
That’s what I mean. When was the last time this court made a good ruling. Weird.
They make good rulings all the time. It’s just usually when doing the right thing also happens to align with the court’s own interests. I can count on John Roberts to support his own interests, if nothing else. And it is not in the best interest of SCOTUS judges for the presidency to become a full dictatorship. If that happens, they lose all their power as well. They support a powerful presidency because a powerful presidency is the only way to push through unpopular social conservative policies. But they don’t want a full dictatorship either.
I hadn’t thought of that. They would be ruling themselves into irrelevance.
The ruling was definitely surprising.
Why would someone saying they can’t believe it make you ask if they think it’s a bad decision?
I asked for clarification. I prefer that over making an assumption.