(iii) Proposed provisions specifying that the USPS shall not transmit mail-in or absentee ballots from any individual unless those individuals have been enrolled on a State-specific list described in subsection (b)(iv) of this section with the USPS pursuant to this subsection.

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    Elections are run by each state, including registration. That means when they want to fuck with the registry they have to do it in a state by state basis, making specific lawsuits that target that state’s system. They want to make it federal so they can just drop whoever they want from the registry without having to go through state officials.

    Besides being a blatant attempt to enable widespread disenfranchisement, it is also highly unconstitutional. The states run elections, following regulations set by Congress. The executive branch should have no power here, and the executive order should be struck down immediately, but who fucking knows at this point.

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      and the executive order should be struck down immediately, but who fucking knows at this point.

      1: The executive order is blocked by a federal court.

      2: Supreme Court issues a stay on that block, allowing the EO to continue until the Supreme Court is able to review it.

      3: Supreme Court slow-walks their review of it, delaying until after the election.

      4: Supreme Court ‘does the right thing’ and decides it’s unconstitutional … after the election, once it’s too late.

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          That and a lot of help from Garland and therefore Biden.

          You don’t appoint a lifetime Republican by the book timid conservative (in every sense of the word) as AG if you want to expedite justice for crimes the book never even IMAGINED, much less drew a jurisprudence roadmap for.

          While the Mango Mussolini and his fellow fascists are of course the main culprits, ALL the people with the vested power to do anything has failed the population so profoundly that only blind followers will have any trust left regardless of whether or not the fascists successfully steal the midterms.

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      I hope someone finally nails him with treason after he gets out of office.

      In not usually one to support capital punishment, but he really seems to have crossed that threshold to justify it…

      Of course, that’s for the courts and the jury to decide. If they ever do their jobs…

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        Lol, my dude…History will gladly demonstrate for you, that when you have a fascist leader already in power, there is only one way they leave office…and it doesn’t permit much time for a trial after.

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          And leave vance in charge without even dispelling his loyal base?

          Look, I want to see the guy kiel over as much as anybody, but we all know Vance can’t get elected, so waltzing into the presidency without an election and simultaneously dropping all the baggage of his predecessor is probably going to be the best thing that could happen for the republican party.

          Much better if we let the guy’s time expire, let the voters deal out the consequences, and let the republican party shatter without a clear leader to take his place…

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        lol, no. Forget about it.

        Even if Dems manage to get control again, they’re going to go straight to “we need to heal the divided country” mode, which means frequently compromising with the Republican minority and ‘forgive and forget’ for all of the Republican’s crimes. After all, they wouldn’t ever want to prosecute anyone in the other party – that might make it look as if they’re pushing politically motivated prosecutions!