Trump’s $5,000 check is definitely not in the mail — but your ballot could be 

In a necessary and unquestionably correct decision, the U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to let President Trump throw the midterm elections into chaos with his scheme to use the U.S. Postal Service to interfere with mail-in voting. 

The ruling should have been unanimous. Several states had already mailed out ballots. Others had already printed their election materials. And the Postal Service had not even created the portal that states were supposed to use to upload lists of citizens that, according to Trump’s unconstitutional order, would be used to decide which ballots to deliver. 

It is appalling that Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas were willing to let the Trump administration impose last-minute changes that were sure to cause what both Republican and Democratic election officials warned would be massive disruption and voter disenfranchisement.

The court’s MAGA maximalists seem to be operating under the principle that anything that interferes with Trump’s authoritarian whims is a violation of the Constitution. Fortunately, in this case, even Trump justices who helped invent king-like immunity for the president recognized that the attempt to force new election rules on the states — especially this close to an election — was a recipe for disaster.

Trump responded in the highly reasonable and presidential fashion for which he is known, ranting angrily about the justices he nominated, charging that they have given into bullying by the “Radical Left” and are now “merely a shell of their original selves.”

Unfortunately, the effort to hinder mail-in voting is only part of the Trump........

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