Posted on 07/01/2026 6:47:16 PM PDT by Red Badger
REUTERS—A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed restrictions on mail-in voting, finding that they violated a settlement with a leading civil rights group that required expedited mail-in ballot handling.
The decision by Washington-based U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan marked the second defeat in the courts in as many weeks for U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to severely restrict mail-in voting ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, with his Republican Party locked in a tight battle to maintain control of both houses of Congress.
The Postal Service in May proposed a rule requiring states to provide lists of voters and adopt new balloting procedures before the mail agency would make deliveries. If states did not comply, the Postal Service would refuse to deliver the ballots.
Sullivan, who was appointed to the bench by Democrat President Bill Clinton, sided with the NAACP rights group, which argued that the new rule would run afoul of a 2021 legal settlement that required USPS officials to take “extraordinary measures” to ensure timely delivery of ballot mail through 2028.
Neither the USPS nor the Justice Department, which represents the administration in court, immediately responded to requests for comment.
Sullivan’s ruling prevented the Postal Service from implementing the proposed regulations, which stemmed from Trump’s March executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state and requiring the USPS to only deliver ballots to voters on each state’s approved mail-in ballot list.
In a separate decision on June 25, Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani blocked Trump from implementing the entire executive order ahead of the midterms.
The judge sided with a coalition of Democratic-led states in ruling that Trump had exceeded his authority in trying to overhaul procedures for elections.
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the communists are going to force a real revolution (despite the fact that some of us, including yours truly) wish otherwise in the (perhaps unrealistic) hope that America citizens’ liberties can be restored through some sort of peaceful means
the climate is getting hotter and hotter
Why not, now that Roberts cleared up the whole birthright thingy.
We need to proceed as if the system were completely broken, because it is.
All those fake mail in ballots is not postal fraud ?
Emmet Sullivan is the POS who appointed himself “persecutor” of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
He’s a Derp State POS all the way. I heard that his son is a dirty little piece of crap.
“Or maybe Judge Sullivan doesn’t want the news about his own son to get into the national headlines - you know, the POS pedophile rapist drug...”
Was there every any doubt this was going to happen. Trump will fight like hell. But the dark enemy to western civilization is well established.
Both parties agree to legal settlements, particularly when the facts are clear and nobody wants to risk their position with a jury if there’s an alternate course available.
Ole reliable Leftist Sullivan
Republican candidates should sue the Postal Service and get settlements of their own.
We are headed right to the brink. The communists are ousting the progressives.
“Both parties agree to legal settlements, particularly when the facts are clear and nobody wants to risk their position with a jury if there’s an alternate course available.”
Dear Democrats running the federal government:
Let’s settle on a settlement that ensures our vote fraud scheme runs smoothly.
NAACP
Dear NAACP:
Our pleasure:
Democrats in charge
It seems that, just as we all thought that progress was being made for conservative causes, that the left, socialist, communists in power are doing everything they can to thwart the sensible solutions to things like our voting system. They are going all in on the steal this year, and in 2028, and if things continue the way they are going we won’t have a United States of “Free” America much longer.
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud...
or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious...article[i.e. ballot],
or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article[i.e. ballot],
for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do,
places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter,
any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service,
or causes to be deposited
any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier,
or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing,
or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon,
or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
“any scheme or artifice”
including filing a lawsuit
paying for a lawsuit
filing papers with a court clerk
appearing before a judge
“any scheme or artifice”
“Both parties agree to legal settlements, particularly when the facts are clear and nobody wants to risk their position with a jury if there’s an alternate course available.”
Was the Administrative Procedure Act followed?
What happens if somebody sues the USPS for being complicit in ballot fraud and they have a settlement in which the USPS says they will only send out ballots to people on an approved-as-eligible list? But in order to keep the other settlement they will expedite the delivery of those eligible ballots.
See, this judge seems to think that the agreement with the NAACP was to expedite ALL ballots, not just eligible ones. Which is why he thinks this policy is in contradiction to the settlement. I don’t see how a US government entity can make a settlement promising to engage in ballot fraud. But this judge seems to understand that it’s not about real ballots but about ALL ballots including fraudulent ones.
“We are headed right to the brink. The communists are ousting the progressives.”
POSSIBLE AMENDMENT
Only persons who had a parent with United States citizenship nine months prior to their birth may be a member of Congress or possess federal judicial power effective after the first January 2nd of the first even numbered year after ratification.
The terms of the House of Representatives shall be for four years starting with the first even numbered Congress after ratification.
The Supreme Court of the United States shall not have more than nine members in any October to September period.
Bob Wills with the view from the DUmp.
There is no controversy that involves the settlement or a mailed ballot
at this time.
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