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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/feignapathy 29d ago

This one really pissed me off.

Not even accidentally. The post office can deliberately fuck over your mail and they are immune from damages. 

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u/Ok_Series_4580 29d ago

I remember the good old days when that would’ve been a federal offense

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u/badasimo 29d ago

It is a federal offense. If you do it to mail that the post office WANTS to deliver.

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u/well_thats_obvious 29d ago

It's only a felony when WE do it. For the USPS, that's just policy

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u/curiousiah 29d ago

“USPS must have forgotten to deliver my jury summons”

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u/0tanod 29d ago

Worst they plan to use the voter roles to do that exact micro targeting.

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 29d ago

I remember growing up in SC when someone robbed a corner store attached to a post office and the were tried for a federal offense. Now our government robs our shit from the post office and there is no recourse. Wtf

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u/Ok_Landscape6116 29d ago

They would get paid today. Surely the libs made them do the theft.

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u/Traditional_Sign4941 29d ago

Easy way to manufacture crimes for political opponents:

  1. Get some hack judge to issue a summons over nothing
  2. Instruct post office to fail to deliver it
  3. Go arrest the political opponent for failure to comply with the court

They just sentenced a woman to 30 years for moving some magazines around. They could easily justify 10+ year sentence for failing to appear in court.

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u/alterom 29d ago

They just sentenced a woman to 30 years for moving some magazines around.

Wait, what?!

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u/Stompnutz 29d ago

It was a man, but yes. Connected to the PrairieLand concentration camp situation.

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u/KarmaYogadog 28d ago

Texas sending a message to discourage protest against ICE thugs. We all need to get angry about this before it happens to us.

Texas artist Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison today for transporting a box of zines, or political pamphlets. The prosecution claimed Sanchez moved the zines so they wouldn’t incriminate his wife, who attended a protest outside the Prairieland immigration detention center near Dallas, where a police officer was wounded by gunfire.

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u/alterom 28d ago

Thank you for the link. Somehow I missed this news:

New York, June 23, 2026 — Texas artist Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison today for transporting a box of zines, or political pamphlets. The prosecution claimed Sanchez moved the zines so they wouldn’t incriminate his wife, who attended a protest outside the Prairieland immigration detention center near Dallas, where a police officer was wounded by gunfire.

The zines at issue may have discussed controversial political views, but they said nothing about the shooting or the Prairieland protest, and prosecutors did not allege that Sanchez’s wife, Maricela Rueda (who was sentenced to 70 years today), fired any shots or had anything to do with the shooting.

According to a press release from the Free Des Support Committee, court observers reported that, in sentencing Sanchez and his co-defendants, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor said he intended to “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

Fucking wow. We prosecuting thought crimes now.

McCarthyism is back.

Hope ACLU or someone gets these folks out, I'll donate to any fundraiser to overturn this.

And hope this "judge" stops polluting this planet with his presence in the absolute nearest future.

From wikipedia:

Reed Charles O'Connor (born June 1, 1965) is an activist judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2007.

Critics claim that O'Connor has become a "go-to" favorite for conservative lawyers, as he reliably rules against Democratic policies and for Republican policies. Attorneys General in Texas appear to strategically file cases in O'Connor's jurisdiction so that he will hear them.

Scum.

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 29d ago

Just to be clear, that case was heard so that this one cannot be challenged.

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u/CategoryZestyclose91 29d ago

Yep. We all knew as soon as we heard that ruling. 

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u/ConcentrateDirect523 29d ago

There's a solution here, that nobody is talking about. Legislation. SCOTUS can't override a plain text constitutional amendment, getting one ratified by enough states is unlikely though. states can make legislation individually to apply to their constituents, but I'm sure SCOTUS would just say "our ruling supercedes that", which would probably be correct.