Thanks Steven: So many disasters, so much to follow. This man Mr. Trump has the ability to take a stately mansion and turn it into a skid road hovel. The mess he made of the White House, the lawn, the east wing the reflecting pool teaming with algae giving off the shade of the Iranian green flag along with the odor of rotting flesh and dead ducks. Don't give this fellow a steel anvil , he may break it. The man reads very little and thinks very little. May the 131 days speed up.
I've always loved that coincidence. I can never remember whether it was Adams who asked "Does Jefferson still live?" or Jefferson who asked it of Adams. Just looked it up: Adams reportedly said "Jefferson still lives," because he couldn't have known that Jefferson had died five hours earlier. And I just learned that President James Monroe also died on July 4, five years later, in 1831.
I cannot wrap my head around this madness…or rather, that Congress is allowing this to continue. Surely Republicans in the Senate know that this will not end well for them. The House Republicans know it, but know that their days in power are probably numbered. Somebody needs to bring smelling salts to the Senate floor because the current and strategic fainting spells by senators in front of viable legislation are not fooling anybody. The zombie apocalypse has taken over. “I didn’t see that,” or “I don’t know anything about that,” we’re used to hearing them say as they run down the halls and into the elevators, leaving a trail of green algae behind them.
The swam is alive and it is crawling with swamp creatures who can’t see or hear but they do love the green of their ill-gotten gains. Just mosey on down to Capitol Hill. The halls are full of them.
Desperation to get or stay close to power, alas. Sad careerists who care more about their own job than the good of the country. And...people who actually like the destruction.
While we are at it, let us not forget the Cabinet members as well as the White House staff people, such as Stephen Miller and Russell Vought, and all the others who prop him up in order to further their own plans to consolidate power.
It’s very hard to fathom that they are bloodthirsty enough to want the demise of our democracy. They have been emboldened by the power they guard so closely. Careerist is too polite a word for what they are. I’d call them carpetbaggers!
…”Somebody needs to bring smelling salts to the Senate floor because the current and strategic fainting spells by senators in front of viable legislation are not fooling anybody. The zombie apocalypse has taken over.”
Do you really think that's so? As far as I can tell, they're mostly incompetent toadies whose sense of duty is minimal, and there's no one capable enough, brave enough, to take the initiative. The Republican Party has been declining for several decades. We're not talking about "the best and the brightest" here.
If you trace the decline of the Republican Party over the previous 20 years, your mind will stop boggling and you’ll just be pissed off. Dana Milbank’s THE DESTRUCTIONISTS: The 25-Year Crack-up of the Republican Party is a good resource on this.
This situation is beyond comprehension. My career has been focused on creating betterment. People were professional and focused and driven for the best results. The behavior the public has seen is crude, tasteless, and should not be representing our America.
Thank You Steven .. I hope my party doesn't fall for the we are going to far to the left etc. The label Socialist or Communist and we are going to scare off voters. I'm sick of it. They need to get out there and talk about what they want to do for the country. Mamdani is NYC he is great (That's my heart and soul NYC) and Jon Ossoff is Georgia and he is magnificent . I remember when the party allowed the GOP to back us into a corner ..Somehow liberal became a dirty word and they changed it to progressive. Anyway I remember Senator Ted Kennedy went on a talk show and he called himself a liberal . He explained we want health care for all . He said there is nothing wrong with being a liberal. Thank You Senator RIP. If the party allows the other side to paint us into a corner again it will be our own fault. If Schumer insists on leading he better get some courage and back the ones that won the primaries ..
If you’re wondering how “liberal” became a dirty word, Phil Ochs’s song from the mid-1960s, “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” provides some clues. Joe McCarthy was dead, but McCarthyism sure wasn’t. (I’m daring to believe that it’s finally on its last legs.) The disastrous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago helped. We’ve never recovered from the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy (the real one) either.
Please, Steven, put some attention on Trump's systematic and unnoticed--silent but effective--work on destroying the integrity of our elections. It's great that people are waking up. It's great that more people are seeing what you so eloquently describe as his degraded, demented, disgraceful evil. But: he is successfully tampering with our election process. In terms of people, (1) he is forcing the Post Office to tamper with mail-in votes. Do we even know how he plans to do this? Does he have info on which ballot mails are likely to be Democrats? Is he going to do wholesale discarding by zip code? We are so complacent we don't even know. And (2) he is gerrymandering everything. Especially southern governors are willing to kiss his tuckus wrt gerrymandering the heck out of their states. And that might put him up by 15 seats. Are Democratic governors doing anything to reverse gerrymander? No. Finally, (3) machines: Election Truth Alliance is a non-conspiracy-theory data analysis non-profit run on a shoestring by a tech expert. It says that not only is one of Musk's many baby-mamas on record saying Musk tampered with elections already; it also says irregular algorithmic patterns are present in recent primaries. See their article on the Massie/Gallrein overturn, where Massie "surprisingly" lost and Gallrein "surprisingly" won. Maybe not such a surprise. Check https://electiontruthalliance.org/. It's just data, friends. But we ignore it, we remain silent about it, at our own peril.
You may be attributing more power to Trump than he actually has. It helps to diversify your sources. If you're interested in what's being done to combat election interference, the ACLU is a good place to start.
From The Hill, Thurs., June 25: "Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service will no longer deliver mail-in ballots in states that refuse to provide sensitive voter data to the federal government, in line with a proposed rule from the Trump administration."
This is more f*cked than I even realized. Will the Republican legislators whose constituents depend on the USPS stand up to this? I have my doubts, but (as the saying goes) WATCH THIS SPACE.
Yes, the ACLU is lovely and is doing some good things in a nice, 20th-century way. I think it's a whole new ball game, though. Have you read this set of factual concerns from two ex-Congresspeople? I was referring to things more along these lines.
Save your snark. The ACLU is a great resource for information and legal work AND they win cases. We can’t afford not to challenge this regime in court. Although there are a lot of times they ignore orders there are also a lot of times they do not. On the voting matter USPS said if there is a court order that blocks the regulation (not to deliver ballots in states that don’t give hand over voter rolls to the Feds) it will comply.
By the way Robert Reich and the authors of the article are very much 20th century fellas. Many of their suggestions are from the 20th century. Drumpf gets most of his ideas from the 20th century. The only thing new is advanced electronic surveillance. I’m not sure how effective it is because the regime got rid of most people who were experts. Now Pulte is dismantling the agency that was set up so agencies would communicate and coordinate.
Project 2025 is also a 20th century thing -- it wants to take the country back to before the New Deal and get rid of anything that stands in Big Business's way.
I've been pleasantly surprised by how often the courts -- including judges who were appointed by Republicans, including Trump -- are standing up to the Trump administration. But the damage done so far is wide and deep, and we're going to have to build back *much* better than what we had before.
He is behind the new proposed regulation announced by USPS to not deliver ballots in states that haven’t given up their voter data to the Feds. DOJ has lost all 9 of their lawsuits against states for not turning them over — this is their try at a work around.
Todays “Daily Docket” from Democracy Docket (Marc Elias group) said “The U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) postmaster general told Congress it won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give the administration their voter lists.” Senator Hassan said told Steiner it was “blatantly illegal” and designed to “reduce participation in our democracy. Steiner said the Postal Service would comply if a court blocks the proposal.”
There are a multitude of court cases at the moment. I can’t imagine USPS prevailing. USPS and the president (regardless of his Exec Orders) have no authority over voting. DOJ’s role is very limited & doesn’t include ordering the states to change rules or turn over voter rolls. (A judge tossed subpoenas for Gov Walz & Mayor Frey (Minneapolis) because the judge determined DOJ was trying to leverage / coerce them to do things DOJ did not have the authority to order them to do.)
Once again as you say, destroying trust in our elections.
Why doesn’t Congress do something to get him out? Why isn’t his family? Maybe they aren’t around him enough to know. He didn’t go to his son’s wedding. That says a lot.
In a functional family, the intervention would have taken place long ago. It hasn't because in a family like this, nearly everybody is dysfunctional. That goes for Republican Congressals and the cabinet as well.
Wouldn´t it be great if we could get rid of labels? Instead of center, center right or left, right, left, how about "I´m in favor of .... and I´m opposed to ....?" Let´s talk about the issues themselves, not where they fall on the political spectrum. [ I know, that´s pie in the sky. ]
That is exactly the approach recommended and practiced by many GOTV groups. It appears to be working, as polls are showing a shift based on values and issues. Now we need to convince the mainstream media to cover things in a similar way and get rid of the horse-race mentality.
Can you hear it? Can you feel it? That is the roaring sound of a Blue Wave coming, crashing down on Republicans' heads, washing all their lies and posturing out to sea. trump and the Republicans will be known for all the destruction they have caused, for the lies they told, for their betrayal of the Constitution and rule of law. We should consider ourselves inkless scribes of history, witnesses to the mayhem and soldiers in the fight against it. We will tell our children and grandchildren about the time the republic almost fell...but didn't, because in the end, there was still good left in the American people. And even if their votes in 2026 and 2028 were out of anger or fear, they still stood up to the cosplayers and frauds, and brought America home again.
My 14 year old grandson lives in an affluent New Jersey suburb with 75% MAGA voters. He, being my grandson and deeply rooted in constitutional and political history, refused to go on his 8th grade field trip to washington, DC to view it in its destroyed and defiled condition. The class returned with the official photo of the class in front of the White House with their MAGA hats on. His father has already had to talk to the principal over my grandson being physically bullied. We don't want him to shut down, but when his safety is at stake, we wonder what to tell him as he transitions to high school---and bigger boys---next year.
I don't even know what to say. That is a dysfunctional school. My first thought was to somehow all of us write him a note telling him not to give up: there are a lot of people out here who agree with him and admire his gumption. I wonder if there is a group of like-minded families or young activists he could become involved in. Sometimes in places like you live, there are people quietly supporting each other. Some churches, some civic orgs such as ACLU. I'm so glad he has a family who supports him and backs him up.
“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency." We all know who wrote that.
Interesting that he did not say he would veto the Housing Bill or that it was dead. The Senate passed it with only 5 no votes. The House with only 32 no votes. In other words those are definitely veto proof margins. What happens if he doesn’t sign it? If Congress is in session for the next 10 days (not including Sundays) the bill becomes law. Congress knows that.
Thune knows & says the SAVE Act does not have the votes to pass in the Senate. He does not want to end the filibuster rule because the GOP will need it if the Dems take the Senate. (He has one less vote this week because no one is sure where McConnell is but he’s not going to be voting at least this week while he “recovers.”)
The latest push to control elections comes as his polling continues to weaken & the courts continue to rule against the regime’s lawsuits. He’s losing a lot. The more he loses the louder he gets. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-doj-suffers-first-appeals-court-loss-in-floundering-voter-roll-crusade/ I’m sure he knows ‘blue’ states are anticipating & planning for federal election meddling. And I’m sure he knows the Schumer is leading a workgroup with experts, legislators etc that includes Marc Elias “wargaming” for November Elections. We should be doing the same thing in our states, counties and neighborhoods.
Thanks Steven: So many disasters, so much to follow. This man Mr. Trump has the ability to take a stately mansion and turn it into a skid road hovel. The mess he made of the White House, the lawn, the east wing the reflecting pool teaming with algae giving off the shade of the Iranian green flag along with the odor of rotting flesh and dead ducks. Don't give this fellow a steel anvil , he may break it. The man reads very little and thinks very little. May the 131 days speed up.
Please, no steel anvil!
Yes….agree Al:….”teaming with algae giving off the shade of the Iranian green flag along with the odor of rotting flesh and dead ducks.”
The pool has rebelled!
Bless the pool!
Both President John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died July 4, 1826.
I've always loved that coincidence. I can never remember whether it was Adams who asked "Does Jefferson still live?" or Jefferson who asked it of Adams. Just looked it up: Adams reportedly said "Jefferson still lives," because he couldn't have known that Jefferson had died five hours earlier. And I just learned that President James Monroe also died on July 4, five years later, in 1831.
That has always amazed me. Since our country’s birthday is so messed up we should at least acknowledge them.
I cannot wrap my head around this madness…or rather, that Congress is allowing this to continue. Surely Republicans in the Senate know that this will not end well for them. The House Republicans know it, but know that their days in power are probably numbered. Somebody needs to bring smelling salts to the Senate floor because the current and strategic fainting spells by senators in front of viable legislation are not fooling anybody. The zombie apocalypse has taken over. “I didn’t see that,” or “I don’t know anything about that,” we’re used to hearing them say as they run down the halls and into the elevators, leaving a trail of green algae behind them.
The swam is alive and it is crawling with swamp creatures who can’t see or hear but they do love the green of their ill-gotten gains. Just mosey on down to Capitol Hill. The halls are full of them.
Desperation to get or stay close to power, alas. Sad careerists who care more about their own job than the good of the country. And...people who actually like the destruction.
While we are at it, let us not forget the Cabinet members as well as the White House staff people, such as Stephen Miller and Russell Vought, and all the others who prop him up in order to further their own plans to consolidate power.
It’s very hard to fathom that they are bloodthirsty enough to want the demise of our democracy. They have been emboldened by the power they guard so closely. Careerist is too polite a word for what they are. I’d call them carpetbaggers!
Hi, Ellen
Your comment: perfect
An excerpt from it:
…”Somebody needs to bring smelling salts to the Senate floor because the current and strategic fainting spells by senators in front of viable legislation are not fooling anybody. The zombie apocalypse has taken over.”
Thank you! I’m glad the description resonates with you!😀
Nice response
“Resonates” 🎵
We all need to hold onto each other - those of us who care about what’s happening during these times…
excellent brief! Absolutely disordered mind. So, please explain the disordered mind of our congress. They look at this and think, oooh, genius 🤣
Love your six questions series.
Thanks and thanks, Jo.
Do you really think that's so? As far as I can tell, they're mostly incompetent toadies whose sense of duty is minimal, and there's no one capable enough, brave enough, to take the initiative. The Republican Party has been declining for several decades. We're not talking about "the best and the brightest" here.
Nice reflection of a man who destroys everything he touches. Why Republicans did not see in 2015 and beyond boggles the mind.
If you trace the decline of the Republican Party over the previous 20 years, your mind will stop boggling and you’ll just be pissed off. Dana Milbank’s THE DESTRUCTIONISTS: The 25-Year Crack-up of the Republican Party is a good resource on this.
This situation is beyond comprehension. My career has been focused on creating betterment. People were professional and focused and driven for the best results. The behavior the public has seen is crude, tasteless, and should not be representing our America.
Thank You Steven .. I hope my party doesn't fall for the we are going to far to the left etc. The label Socialist or Communist and we are going to scare off voters. I'm sick of it. They need to get out there and talk about what they want to do for the country. Mamdani is NYC he is great (That's my heart and soul NYC) and Jon Ossoff is Georgia and he is magnificent . I remember when the party allowed the GOP to back us into a corner ..Somehow liberal became a dirty word and they changed it to progressive. Anyway I remember Senator Ted Kennedy went on a talk show and he called himself a liberal . He explained we want health care for all . He said there is nothing wrong with being a liberal. Thank You Senator RIP. If the party allows the other side to paint us into a corner again it will be our own fault. If Schumer insists on leading he better get some courage and back the ones that won the primaries ..
If you’re wondering how “liberal” became a dirty word, Phil Ochs’s song from the mid-1960s, “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” provides some clues. Joe McCarthy was dead, but McCarthyism sure wasn’t. (I’m daring to believe that it’s finally on its last legs.) The disastrous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago helped. We’ve never recovered from the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy (the real one) either.
I’m looking forward to Six Questions with Andrew Weissman. All the episodes thus far have been excellent, illuminating and empowering. Thank you!🙏🏽
Thanks much, Marina.
Well written again:
Evoking the disdain for his actions and ending with inspiring us.
We need both -I experience both.
Thanks for the truthful assessment, Steven, but especially the ongoing inspiration to hope, dream, act.
131 days
Please, Steven, put some attention on Trump's systematic and unnoticed--silent but effective--work on destroying the integrity of our elections. It's great that people are waking up. It's great that more people are seeing what you so eloquently describe as his degraded, demented, disgraceful evil. But: he is successfully tampering with our election process. In terms of people, (1) he is forcing the Post Office to tamper with mail-in votes. Do we even know how he plans to do this? Does he have info on which ballot mails are likely to be Democrats? Is he going to do wholesale discarding by zip code? We are so complacent we don't even know. And (2) he is gerrymandering everything. Especially southern governors are willing to kiss his tuckus wrt gerrymandering the heck out of their states. And that might put him up by 15 seats. Are Democratic governors doing anything to reverse gerrymander? No. Finally, (3) machines: Election Truth Alliance is a non-conspiracy-theory data analysis non-profit run on a shoestring by a tech expert. It says that not only is one of Musk's many baby-mamas on record saying Musk tampered with elections already; it also says irregular algorithmic patterns are present in recent primaries. See their article on the Massie/Gallrein overturn, where Massie "surprisingly" lost and Gallrein "surprisingly" won. Maybe not such a surprise. Check https://electiontruthalliance.org/. It's just data, friends. But we ignore it, we remain silent about it, at our own peril.
You may be attributing more power to Trump than he actually has. It helps to diversify your sources. If you're interested in what's being done to combat election interference, the ACLU is a good place to start.
From The Hill, Thurs., June 25: "Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service will no longer deliver mail-in ballots in states that refuse to provide sensitive voter data to the federal government, in line with a proposed rule from the Trump administration."
This is more f*cked than I even realized. Will the Republican legislators whose constituents depend on the USPS stand up to this? I have my doubts, but (as the saying goes) WATCH THIS SPACE.
Yes, the ACLU is lovely and is doing some good things in a nice, 20th-century way. I think it's a whole new ball game, though. Have you read this set of factual concerns from two ex-Congresspeople? I was referring to things more along these lines.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/warning-trumps-rolling-coup-is-underway?r=2t4xvh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Save your snark. The ACLU is a great resource for information and legal work AND they win cases. We can’t afford not to challenge this regime in court. Although there are a lot of times they ignore orders there are also a lot of times they do not. On the voting matter USPS said if there is a court order that blocks the regulation (not to deliver ballots in states that don’t give hand over voter rolls to the Feds) it will comply.
By the way Robert Reich and the authors of the article are very much 20th century fellas. Many of their suggestions are from the 20th century. Drumpf gets most of his ideas from the 20th century. The only thing new is advanced electronic surveillance. I’m not sure how effective it is because the regime got rid of most people who were experts. Now Pulte is dismantling the agency that was set up so agencies would communicate and coordinate.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-rejects-doj-attempt-to-obtain-marylands-sensitive-voter-data
Project 2025 is also a 20th century thing -- it wants to take the country back to before the New Deal and get rid of anything that stands in Big Business's way.
I've been pleasantly surprised by how often the courts -- including judges who were appointed by Republicans, including Trump -- are standing up to the Trump administration. But the damage done so far is wide and deep, and we're going to have to build back *much* better than what we had before.
He is behind the new proposed regulation announced by USPS to not deliver ballots in states that haven’t given up their voter data to the Feds. DOJ has lost all 9 of their lawsuits against states for not turning them over — this is their try at a work around.
Todays “Daily Docket” from Democracy Docket (Marc Elias group) said “The U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) postmaster general told Congress it won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give the administration their voter lists.” Senator Hassan said told Steiner it was “blatantly illegal” and designed to “reduce participation in our democracy. Steiner said the Postal Service would comply if a court blocks the proposal.”
There are a multitude of court cases at the moment. I can’t imagine USPS prevailing. USPS and the president (regardless of his Exec Orders) have no authority over voting. DOJ’s role is very limited & doesn’t include ordering the states to change rules or turn over voter rolls. (A judge tossed subpoenas for Gov Walz & Mayor Frey (Minneapolis) because the judge determined DOJ was trying to leverage / coerce them to do things DOJ did not have the authority to order them to do.)
Once again as you say, destroying trust in our elections.
The full article is at this link - sorry it is so long: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postmaster-general-steiner-postal-service-will-not-deliver-mail-ballots-state-voter-rolls/?utm_campaign=13200977-Free%20Newsletter%20Emails&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--oYJ2U8LSMsJinCKoWjYYZXDPQJ8dG0BTFZu-r-Qp6krXZSUshO59FPahoHuXDGcJOfPymiQ9BdFii0Coc3ALLcnwG7Q&_hsmi=425442762&utm_content=425442760&utm_source=hs_email
Focus on Action We Can Take: The Public Comment Period is until July 2. Contact USPS (there is an online form) to tell them to stay out of ELECTIONS
Thanks. Excellent idea. I wasn’t sure it was online yet.
Why doesn’t Congress do something to get him out? Why isn’t his family? Maybe they aren’t around him enough to know. He didn’t go to his son’s wedding. That says a lot.
Yes, in a sane world, there would be an intervention.
In a functional family, the intervention would have taken place long ago. It hasn't because in a family like this, nearly everybody is dysfunctional. That goes for Republican Congressals and the cabinet as well.
Do I also have to subscribe to Weissman’s Substack to watch the video ? It won’t let me in. Thanks Steven.
No. Paid subscribers should be able to watch the whole thing.
Thanks.
I am just listening to it now on the podcast !
Wouldn´t it be great if we could get rid of labels? Instead of center, center right or left, right, left, how about "I´m in favor of .... and I´m opposed to ....?" Let´s talk about the issues themselves, not where they fall on the political spectrum. [ I know, that´s pie in the sky. ]
That is exactly the approach recommended and practiced by many GOTV groups. It appears to be working, as polls are showing a shift based on values and issues. Now we need to convince the mainstream media to cover things in a similar way and get rid of the horse-race mentality.
Can you hear it? Can you feel it? That is the roaring sound of a Blue Wave coming, crashing down on Republicans' heads, washing all their lies and posturing out to sea. trump and the Republicans will be known for all the destruction they have caused, for the lies they told, for their betrayal of the Constitution and rule of law. We should consider ourselves inkless scribes of history, witnesses to the mayhem and soldiers in the fight against it. We will tell our children and grandchildren about the time the republic almost fell...but didn't, because in the end, there was still good left in the American people. And even if their votes in 2026 and 2028 were out of anger or fear, they still stood up to the cosplayers and frauds, and brought America home again.
My 14 year old grandson lives in an affluent New Jersey suburb with 75% MAGA voters. He, being my grandson and deeply rooted in constitutional and political history, refused to go on his 8th grade field trip to washington, DC to view it in its destroyed and defiled condition. The class returned with the official photo of the class in front of the White House with their MAGA hats on. His father has already had to talk to the principal over my grandson being physically bullied. We don't want him to shut down, but when his safety is at stake, we wonder what to tell him as he transitions to high school---and bigger boys---next year.
Sorry that happened to your grandson. Sounds like he is very smart, thoughtful with high morals.
I don't even know what to say. That is a dysfunctional school. My first thought was to somehow all of us write him a note telling him not to give up: there are a lot of people out here who agree with him and admire his gumption. I wonder if there is a group of like-minded families or young activists he could become involved in. Sometimes in places like you live, there are people quietly supporting each other. Some churches, some civic orgs such as ACLU. I'm so glad he has a family who supports him and backs him up.
“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency." We all know who wrote that.
Interesting that he did not say he would veto the Housing Bill or that it was dead. The Senate passed it with only 5 no votes. The House with only 32 no votes. In other words those are definitely veto proof margins. What happens if he doesn’t sign it? If Congress is in session for the next 10 days (not including Sundays) the bill becomes law. Congress knows that.
Thune knows & says the SAVE Act does not have the votes to pass in the Senate. He does not want to end the filibuster rule because the GOP will need it if the Dems take the Senate. (He has one less vote this week because no one is sure where McConnell is but he’s not going to be voting at least this week while he “recovers.”)
The latest push to control elections comes as his polling continues to weaken & the courts continue to rule against the regime’s lawsuits. He’s losing a lot. The more he loses the louder he gets. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-doj-suffers-first-appeals-court-loss-in-floundering-voter-roll-crusade/ I’m sure he knows ‘blue’ states are anticipating & planning for federal election meddling. And I’m sure he knows the Schumer is leading a workgroup with experts, legislators etc that includes Marc Elias “wargaming” for November Elections. We should be doing the same thing in our states, counties and neighborhoods.
The buzzwords he’s chosen are “national emergency”. Just like USPS has no legal basis to be involved in elections or make regulations regarding elections, “The Trump Administration Has No Legal Authority To Invoke National Security and Take Over Elections”. So said the Center for American Progress back in March. The Constitution has not changed. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-has-no-legal-authority-to-invoke-national-security-and-take-over-elections/