(#6422) 63 days until the election...

      Nothing has changed overnight on the appeal to the 1st circuit court of appeals on the attempt by trump to disenfranchise one third of Americans who vote. Even the hypocrisy of trump using mail in voting himself is not lost on any who would look objectively at this unconstitutional incompetence! What has changed is nothing so far as to the trump postal rule coming into effect. The federal judge blocked implementation of any change to the current existing mail voting protocols. In fact other judges around the country are holding the line against other attempts to set precedence that the not supreme court could use to help them align with the trump power grab.
     It is a power grab by definition since no other logical explanation is offered as proof. Even the fact of trump's continued use of mail in voting himself shows the opposite of his claim. I have been thinking about the 1st circuit court of appeals and how they did not rush a decision so that the not supreme court could immediately accept the challenge and rule as they see fit. It is almost like the 1st circuit is measuring it's response by extending the decision they must truly already have. As the case drags on the voting gets closer and makes for a change to voting like mail in voting almost impossible to reorder. I cannot help but assume that is part of the calculus as such.
     As each day extends with no change to mail in voting by whatever opportunity, the fact of changing mail in voting becomes even more impossible. Which to me is a good thing. If the not supreme court decides to hear the case with many moving parts it won't happen overnight. There are procedures that need to be followed and the soonest they could come about would be at or after the first ballots begin going out on September 4th. Most likely scenario is the not supreme court will hear the appeal of the mail in voting injunction sometime after Labor day. I expect the 1st circuit court will uphold the district judges injunction on the postal service's plans to change mail in voting. Then the not supreme court will have it's reputation to consider as well as the nefarious trump postal rule!