(#6434) 51 days until the election...still nothing from the supreme court

     Although nothing new from the supreme court, last night however another federal judge in Washington D.C. issued his own preliminary injunction on the postal service rule. His reasoning coincides with the earlier federal judge from Massachusetts that the coming midterm election would harm vast amounts of eligible voters if implemented for this election. The contrast here on one level is that both judges were appointed by different presidents. One by Obama and one by trump. It seems that logic can transcend politics at this critical moment. With North Carolina, Delaware, Wisconsin, and Alabama already sending overseas ballots out and Pennsylvania ready to start absentee voting tomorrow the end of the trump postal rule seems imminent.
     In my mind last Friday should have been the day the supreme court lifted the preliminary injunction if they were to allow the postal rule to move forward. They didn't and now we are into Monday with more activity having occurred around the normal mail in ballot procedures. I am no genius nor wizard, but it is getting obvious that the supreme court is going to punt the appeal by trump to allow the postal rule changes. For many reasons the supreme court should nullify the rule but the one glaring reason is that our midterm election process has not only started but it is now roaring along. It would be unimaginable now for the supreme court to interfere with an ongoing election just to break constitutional law as a favor to trump!
     The entirety of the postal rule is unconstitutional in my mind so we should never have gotten this far with it to begin with. But knowing how the supreme court republican majority often bends to trump's will I am not surprised, just again disgusted by their loyalty to him, although this postal rule construction quite possibly was a bridge too far even for them. For some of the 6 republicans on the supreme court it wasn't a bridge too far but not enough to give them a majority agreement and allow the democracy undermining postal rule to become law. It is my sincere hope that at least 6 of the justices on the supreme court will hold that the postal rule is unconstitutional.