Even Trump's Judge Blocked His Mail-In Voting Ban
The White House tried using the postal service to quietly strangle mail-in voting before midterms, but a federal judge just shut it down.
Donald Trump signed an executive order telling the USPS to slap heavy restrictions on delivering mail-in ballots. The official justification was preventing "widespread fraud" — the same phantom menace that nobody ever manages to prove in court.
Federal judge Carl Nichols stepped in to put a halt to it. The kicker is that Trump actually appointed him, yet Nichols bluntly ruled that the order clearly exceeded executive branch authority. In plain English: the Constitution leaves mail regulations to Congress, not the president's pen.
The ruling pointed out that stripping legitimate citizens of their right to vote is a very real danger, while the administration failed to show any evidence of fraud justifying such extreme meddling.
Appointing a judge to the federal bench doesn't automatically buy lifetime immunity from the rule of law.
Source: The Hill
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