The U.S. Constitution is clear that the states — and the states alone — handle elections and the U.S. Supreme Court is wrong to even open up the possibility that President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots can go forward. The president and the U.S. Postal Service aren’t in charge of voting practices and the lower courts got that right in knocking down the Trump order. The justices of the high court should know better.

Trump wants the USPS to refuse to carry ballots to people that the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t have on a master list of citizens.

This, as with birthright citizenship, is another area where there is an entirely manufactured “debate” despite a long unanimity of thought rooted in the language of the Constitution. The nation’s founding document vests the handling of elections in the states, for a myriad reasons. Not given this power........

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