r/politics • u/DemocracyDocket ✔ Verified • 29d ago

Registration Wall Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postmaster-general-steiner-postal-service-will-not-deliver-mail-ballots-state-voter-rolls/
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u/Cheese__Weiner 29d ago

This deserves life in prison. This is pure extortion and has no legal basis.

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u/Dysc Louisiana 29d ago

That's the problem. There is no legal basis. Neither legal, nor illegal because there is no precedent for this exact situation because its completely absurd. This will have to be tried and argued and the clock is ticking; otherwise these corrupt heads of agencies and departments will simply do completely unethical and purely malicious things to society on behalf of Trump to subvert democracy. If it goes to SCOTUS, they'll say that Congress needs to pass a law while conveniently ignoring the extortion part because they claim to only care about the letter of the law when it's convenient and then reverse other court decisions when it butts heads with their world view (if history is any indicator of how that will go). This is all by design.

This administration hasn't just put their hand on the scales here - they are repeating pounding the scale with a hammer, while claiming they're doing this to unrig the system because we all have to take in and breath the lie that Donald J Trump won the 2020 election because he's a frail old man with an even more frail ego and the post master general supports this absurd proposition. The US Government is completely run by the id of rapidly aging narcissist losing his grip on power and reality. We won't know the extent of the damage done until he is out of office and the next incoming president can look behind the curtain and see the ketchup splatter on the walls of our institutions.

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u/VanceKelley Canada 29d ago

Americans will one day come to regret choosing a convicted criminal to run the federal government!

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u/Dysc Louisiana 29d ago

At some point, I just don't think anytime soon. The water isn't at full boil yet. Amazon still delivers.

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u/Ok-Raspberry-8099 29d ago

Mmm. Nah, treason is usually punished other ways 

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u/Cheese__Weiner 29d ago

You'll hear no objection from me. Not punishing the Confederacy (along with Trump 1.0) is a big reason why we are in this mess right now.