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On Monday, the Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump’s effort to throw mail balloting into chaos ahead of the November midterm elections. But that was just one prong of Trump’s attempts to tilt races toward Republicans. Today we’ll explain the others.

This Supreme Court ruling seems like a big deal. What exactly happened? 

You aren’t wrong. As the legal expert Richard Hasen explains in Slate, Trump’s executive order would have created onerous new requirements for mail-in voting that risked disenfranchising millions of elderly, military, and other voters. Seven of nine justices apparently saw that potential catastrophe coming and rejected it, prompting a Tuesday-morning tantrum from the president. Trump has repeatedly tried to get the court to take his side on mail-in ballots, but this ruling looks like the end of the line—at least for this year’s elections.

OK, bullet dodged. But what else is Trump doing that we should worry about?

Trump’s order was backed by his unfounded claims that mail voting is fraudulent, part of his broader obsession with the false notion that Democrats are “cheating” to win elections. Trump has said he wants to “take over” elections, which are currently administered by state-level officials. That decentralized system is actually a bulwark against the kind of cheating Trump claims to........

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