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hookaleft

(1,106 posts) Thu May 28, 2026, 07:41 AM Thursday

BREAKING: US judge allows Trump to implement mail-in voting executive order

A US judge on Thursday declined ⁠to block President Donald ⁠Trump’s executive tightening rules on mail-in ⁠voting in a loss for the Democratic Party, whose lawyers argued that it could disenfranchise millions of voters.

The decision comes as Trump’s Republicans are locked in a tight battle to keep control ‌of both houses of the US Congress in the November midterm elections.

Trump has for years pushed the false claim that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voter fraud and has criticised voting by mail.

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https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3355176/us-judge-allows-trump-implement-mail-voting-executive-order

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BREAKING: US judge allows Trump to implement mail-in voting executive order (Original Post) hookaleft Thursday OP

Does this mean Trump won't be able to mail in his vote anymore? Vinca Thursday #1

It's not good, but it will cut both ways: a lot of elderly Republicans mail in their vote. Chasstev365 Thursday #2

Executive orders arent laws Johonny Thursday #3

Sigh....another traitor judge purr-rat beauty Thursday #4

Correction: Fiendish Thingy Thursday #5

More than that Johonny Thursday #8

Any judge that oks that fucker's lawless orders should be 86'd* from the bench. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Thursday #6

This will be appealed to a higher court videohead5 Thursday #7

Vinca

(54,417 posts)

1. Does this mean Trump won't be able to mail in his vote anymore?

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Thu May 28, 2026, 07:45 AM

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Chasstev365

(8,207 posts)

2. It's not good, but it will cut both ways: a lot of elderly Republicans mail in their vote.

Reply to hookaleft (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 07:59 AM

Thursday

Johonny

(26,689 posts)

3. Executive orders arent laws

Reply to hookaleft (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 08:17 AM

Thursday

And stated are allowed to ignore them. They run their own elections, not the executive branch of the federal government. His EO is meaningless.

purr-rat beauty

(1,502 posts)

4. Sigh....another traitor judge

Reply to hookaleft (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 08:56 AM

Thursday

I don't see how enabling the Executive branch to undermine our voting rights and opportunities is considered legal or Constitutional

Sounds like blatant election interference

Fiendish Thingy

(24,218 posts)

5. Correction:

Reply to hookaleft (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 09:02 AM

Thursday

Judge allows Trump to try and implement his election EO.

It is unenforceable, and the states will ignore it as they have ignored all the other election EO’s.

Johonny

(26,689 posts)

8. More than that

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #5)

Thu May 28, 2026, 09:40 AM

Thursday

It requires the understaffed PO to have to get election registration data and then somehow sort the mail in ballots to it before delivery.

Who knows what they do with the ones that don't match?

The PO isn't funded to do this, and it feels like a violation of the establishment clause of the PO in general. They were established to deliver mail, not determine voter registration.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,318 posts)

6. Any judge that oks that fucker's lawless orders should be 86'd* from the bench.

Reply to hookaleft (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 09:25 AM

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*removed from the...menu!

videohead5

(3,010 posts)

7. This will be appealed to a higher court

Reply to hookaleft (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2026, 09:40 AM

Thursday

States can ignore it anyway. Oregon is 100% mail in voting or very close to it. The people of Oregon would not even be allowed to vote if Trump's EO was actually a law but it's not. The constitution is clear.

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