Trump Triumphs at SCOTUS – Dems Counting on Mail-in Voting Should Prepare to Panic
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding mail-in ballots to go forward.
In late March, Trump issued an executive order requiring states to send a list of names of those receiving mail-in ballots so they could be verified as U.S. citizens, with the Department of Homeland Security working in conjunction with the Social Security Administration.
“The Federal Government has an unavoidable duty under Article II of the Constitution of the United States to enforce Federal law, which includes preventing violations of Federal criminal law and maintaining public confidence in election outcomes,” the directive read.
The U.S. Postal Service was instructed not to deliver ballots to those unverified as citizens.
Further, states are required to have “unique ballot envelope identifiers, such as bar codes, [to] enable confirmation that only citizens receive and cast ballots, reducing the risk of fraud and protecting the integrity of Federal elections.”
Twenty-three states, along with the District of Columbia, sued the Trump administration in federal court seeking to block the order.
Massachusetts-based federal Judge Indira Talwani, appointed by Barack Obama, issued an injunction blocking the implementation, which the First U.S. District Court of Appeals upheld in late July.
In its Monday 6-3 ruling reversing the injunction, the Supreme Court did not decide whether Trump’s order was lawful, but determined the states suing to block it did not have standing because they could not prove any “concrete” harms had been suffered by their citizens, concluding their arguments are “conjecture.”
In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the majority of “[t]aking its eye off the ball” and thus “miss[ing] the Government’s actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections.”