With the midterm elections less than 10 weeks away, the Supreme Court has lifted a lower court injunction on President Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail-in voting ahead of the midterms. Trump’s order directed the Department of Homeland Security to create state-by-state lists of eligible voters who are citizens. The U.S. Postal Service would then use the lists provided by states to assess if voters should be allowed to vote by mail. On Monday, justices ruled 6 to 3 that California and 22 other states lacked standing to sue over the issue. The ruling, however, did not address whether Trump had authority to impose the rules.

The court’s three liberal justices dissented. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that the majority opinion “needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections.”

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    5 hours ago

    So I understand that the Civil War effectively settled the question of whether the states can unilaterally dissolve the Union, but legalistically, but at what point has the federal government constructively dissolved it? The Constitution very explicitly gives the authority over elections to the states and Congress. Now that the other two branches have ignored it, it feels like they’ve abrogated the whole Constitution, since I believe it’s not severable.

    (Yes, I’m aware they’ve done this before, which only makes my question more pertinent. John Roberts has erased any legitimacy the Court once had.)

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      at what point has the federal government constructively dissolved [the Union]?

      At the point where the military and cops start obeying the constitution by no longer obeying illegal orders, I guess.

      So probably long past the “millions of innocent citizens directly and indirectly murdered by the government" point 😮‍💨