Get This!! The USPS is appealing the ruling against them that orders they cannot

[hookaleft]

refuse to mail ballots regarding Trump's executive order. This is the order that mandates that the Post Office cannot deliver your mail ballots if your state has not submitted their voter roles.

Postal Services appeals court order blocking Trump’s anti-mail voting order

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has asked a federal court to pause its order blocking the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order against mail voting as it appeals the ruling.

Meanwhile, Democratic elected officials are urging the USPS not to move forward with the order, warning that doing so will make it harder for states to smoothly administer the upcoming midterms.

In a filing Monday, the federal government argued that unless the court grants a stay, the “sweeping injunction” will “severely disrupt USPS’s efforts to potentially promulgate a final rule” fulfilling Trump’s March 2026 order ahead of November’s midterms elections.

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https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postal-services-appeals-court-order-blocking-trumps-anti-mail-voting-order/

I mean WTF??? When did the post office become an arm of The White House and the Republican Party?? They are claiming "irreparable harm" in their appeal. So afraid this will end up on the Shadow Docket at the Supreme Court.

Also see this video. Harry Littman breaks it down.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1322121085

[Blues Heron]

1. Whose side are they on!

[bluestarone]

2. Sounds like they are going MAGA!!

[orthoclad]

17. They've been MAGA since T1.0,

when DeJoy destroyed mail-handling machines, removed most mailboxes, and refused to obey a court order about ballots. We let him get away with ALL of it!

And we let them continue without purging the scoundrels and criminals in 21 22 23 24...

[House of Roberts]

3. When did the post office become an arm of The White House and the Republican Party?

When Trump installed Louis DeJoy as the head of it. That may not be who is in charge of it now, but that's when it started.

[orthoclad]

18. And we let it go on withoput fixing it

[Akakoji]

4. Decades ago

Postal carriers have been screaming about it for decades. At this point most of the competent postal carriers have retired or quit. The newer ones are beyond unqualified. The goal is to piss so many people off that they beg for the USPS to be privatized.

[TommyT139]

22. And Susan Collins made things much worse

Maine letter carriers say Collins paved the way for Trump’s attack on postal service

Years before the Trump administration began instituting cost-cutting measures that has created a national slowdown in mail delivery, Sen. Susan Collins sponsored legislation that Maine letter carriers now say manufactured a financial “crisis” in the U.S. Postal Service that has been used ever since to justify calls for privatization.

In 2005, Collins introduced the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA). In 2006, it became law and required the post office to pay for retirement healthcare benefits for workers 75 years into the future. No other federal agency or private corporation has been saddled with such a massive pre-funding mandate.

From Aug. 12, 2020 https://mainebeacon.com/maine-letter-carriers-say-collins-paved-the-way-for-trumps-attack-on-postal-service/

[struggle4progress]

5. "Neither warm weather nor bright sunlight nor ordinary decency nor court rulings to protect your constitutional rights

will persuade these brazen fuckwits to deliver your mail"

[MadameButterfly]

6. Dems failed to remove DeJoy for some reason

while Biden was president. Is he still there and behind this? What did we expect?

[Kingofalldems]

7. No, another Trump henchman.

[JoseBalow]

13. Just when I was getting used to him

[orthoclad]

19. Among many such failures to purge Nazis

[BaronChocula]

8. Authoritarianism doesn't follow rules

And this is authoritarianism. It's not to the point where an 80-year old with dementia can get away with whatever he wants, but he can order accomplices to do improper or illegal things just to see if anyone will tire of stopping him.

[RB77]

9. We went through this in election 2020

Remember when DeJoy was removing postal equipment, laying off employees and whatever he can do to interrupt mail-in voting? 6 years later, he’s still here. I guess everybody forgot. 😔

[RB77]

10. OOP'S -

He’s (DeJoy) is not the postmaster general anymore. I should have checked - my bad, - sorry everybody. - 😔

[pwb]

11. Return your ballot in a plain envelope with your stamp?

They will have to cancel all mail to stop that from being delivered. Otherwise they are stealing from us and not providing a service for the money we already spent.

[hookaleft]

12. It is not just that...

they will not even deliver your mail ballot from the registrar so you can vote.

[pwb]

14. That would be a disservice. Postage is paid before

the service is complete? Trusted. Courts could help but will they. A sad thought, something we trusted our whole lives taken because of an election sore loser.

[dlk]

15. Republicans are doing everything they can to steal the next election

They will stop at nothing.

[Vinca]

16. The post office can't seem to even deliver the damn mail. I'm following tracking for an item I ordered.

It originated in Daytona Beach, Florida and, in a couple of days, made it up to New Hampshire to the hub where they sort mail to be sent to my little post office. It's about 50 miles away from me tops. This morning I checked the tracking to see if the package was delivered to my post office and astonishingly it was flown back to Florida and was in Orlando. Since then, it's departed Orlando to heaven knows where. The last thing we need is the post office involved in voting.

[Akakoji]

20. The post office has always sent out, received and delivered ballots

For as long as I’ve been alive. It a well established part of the electoral system. For most people in the U.S. the USPS delivers more than mail. Sounds like you’re talking about a package, correct? Would you prefer Bezos and Amazon deliver all medications to women, for example? Not having the option of voting by mail is exactly what Trump wants. As is having the voter rolls in every state. Why? He wants to know exactly where he needs to physically harass and intimidate voters. How many people are terrified at the prospect of being harmed if they even try to vote? This is how fascism works.

[Vinca]

21. I'm talking about Trump expecting the post office to check the voter's status before delivering a ballot. Their job is

delivering the mail, not checking voter ID. And my beef is they can barely deliver the mail.

[Qutzupalotl]

23. The USPS is not required to follow executive orders.

They are required to follow the LAW.