The Supreme Court Looks Likely to Cave on Mail-In Ballots: The GOP shouldn’t win this case, but the fact that Trump has been throwing a tantrum about it for years means they likely will.

He is just biggest disaster for this country ever I’m disabled mail in ballots worked great for me

The supreme court is a corrupt organization. The majority on that court have been compromised by Republican donors, they're traitors to the United States of America

Trump voted by mail. By what what right can mail in ballots be unconstitutional?

Mail-in ballots leave a paper trail, and that’s worrying for Trump.

The fact trump just voted by mail should make his argument 100% invalid

And, what about HIS mail-in-ballot in Florida?!? I really can't take any more of this B/S! Snippet: >The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in a case that exists only because Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, threw a temper tantrum, attempted a coup d’état, failed at that, and has spent the last six years claiming he won the election he clearly lost. The case is called Watson v. Republican National Committee, and it involves a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted as long as they are received by the state board of elections within five days of the election.

In California, we have early voting and drop boxes in addition to mail-in voting. If that's true in other states as well, people in population centers (cities) may have an advantage in ease-of-voting over rural locations, ESPECIALLY if the mail is unreliable. Even if the corrupt clown court does rule that votes postmarked on time which arrive late can be tossed, it might end up hurting Republicans more than Democrats.

Usually, all military voted sit in a locked bag until all the other votes have been counted and it is close enough that they could make a difference. So this would invalidate all active duty military that tries to vote while they are deployed fighting our illegal wars. Cool cool cool

I’m not a legal scholar but I would think the President voting by mail-in ballot just this week should be a helluva argument for its defense

So, if Trump whines about it, then the Supreme Court will make a legal ruling to keep the cry baby happy. Our justice system sucks!

The court is basically being asked to choose between clear state laws and vibes, and lately, the vibes have been winning. It’s hard to feel confident in the process when the goalposts keep moving right before an election.

Trump literally just voted with a mail in ballot. This is the dumbest timeline

So what is Melania and Barrons excuse for using mail in ballots ?

The corrupt six will give trump what he wants

This is not America anymore

He’s a lame duck why do they care what the orange blob thinks? They are already on the court. How good would it feel to tell your awful boss pound sand? this cult is stupid.

States need to refuse / ignore any of this nonsense. We know it will intentionally come down right ahead of the midterms to maximize the chaos

Couple this with the USPS deciding to delay when a piece of mail is postmarked [https://www.brookings.edu/articles/when-a-postmark-no-longer-tracks-mailing/](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/when-a-postmark-no-longer-tracks-mailing/)

We used to have elections. Now we have Trump screaming at judges until they give him what he wants. This is not America anymore

So I am wondering how they are going to have the military vote. Or are they going to say the military shouldn't vote?

Trump literally did mail-in voting last week. The hypocrisy is astounding.

F*** the conservative justices, “honorable”, my ass

His voting by mail recently should have this case thrown out immediately...

Crazy to be alive to witness my country flushing itself down the toilet in real time. Never thought in all my ~60 years this type of self-immolation was even possible for the US on this level and at this speed, but I guess I’m grateful to have my naïveté stripped away.

After he himself just used a mail-in ballot. Our system is a joke.

Next up, closing more polling stations, more laws against handing out water in lines. Actually let's enact laws that polling stations must be under direct sunlight, voters must be dehydrated, no less than a 2 hour drive, employers not allowed to give the day off, ooo and bring back poll taxes to filter out minorities. Let's see, what else...security guards AND must be ICE? This country is a joke.

The whole idea that late-arriving ballots damage faith in the electoral system is absurd. Counting all the votes is infinitely more important than having news casts call the w***** as early as possible.

Oregon is only vote by mail. 

Trump also just voted in the palm beach county special election BY MAIL. The democratic candidate won btw.

This will likely f*** over Republicans more. 

A bunch of pathetic, lawless bitches are expected to cave to a fascist piece of shit?

Even if this actually does happen, why should any state that has mail-in voting follow the order? Trump and so many of his appointees constantly defy court orders. If they can do it without consequence, so can we.

So the deployed military don’t get to vote? I had to mail in twice while deployed.

The justices don't have to worry about job security, so I don't understand why they are so afraid of Trump… unless it's not their jobs they are worried about??

They have to help them win. The next Dem in power will be required to prosecute SCOTUS for treason.

Trump mailed in his ballot for the Florida elections. He's also in the Epstein files more than Epstein.

Meanwhile Trump voted via mail in ballot lmao

This suck for way too many people. Just another attempt of republicans to control elections. Truth be told they are the ones cheating elections but make it look like democrats. Next truth TRUMP LIES.

The Supreme Court is 100% bought and paid for by the RNC and the Heritage Foundation. Just drop the fake pretext.

People will realize democracy is dead when there’s no mail in voting and “certain” neighborhoods will have ICE surrounding the people in the five hour line outside the single voting center.

Mutiple states *only* have mail in ballots, including red states. If this hurts anybody it's going to hurt Republicans too!

You mean the mail in system that he himself uses? Good to know it's secure enough for the most important person in our country but at the same time is so insecure that just anyone can abuse it

This hurts Republicans as bad as Democrats; how many elderly folk relied on mail in ballots to vote for Trump in the last election?

Did the Constitution change?? Did Congress pass a relevant law? Did the Supreme Court get some new magical power to change the words? Article 1 Sec 4 Clause 1 The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

He votes via mail-in. F*** trump and every single one of his fluffers.

Gotta love Justices who rule according to the temperament of a demented felon/rapist! A demented felon/rapist who just voted by mail!!!

Essentially the entire state of Utah, a very red state, votes via mail-in ballots.

Another way they support troops dying overseas for oil. Keep up the good work GOP.

F*** that headline. Trump just mailed in his ballot. As did his wife and son.

So trumps mail in ballots won’t count then ?

Didn't he just mail in his vote for his local electorate?

and whats sad is tRUMP quoted Putin as telling him that mail in ballots are bad ,so my question is is the Supreme Court backing Putin as well, And why did tRump and family vote by mail

2024 was the easiest election to vote in the country’s history. The most poll stations. The most mail-in and advance options. And you couldn’t get off your asses to vote. Once in every four years and you couldn’t even do that. Or worse, you were proudly vocal about boycotting and demanded everyone else boycott too. You pissed it all away and now you’re standing with a stupid prideful look on your face trying to blame someone, anyone, else.

Apparently there will also be armed and masked ICE agents surrounding the polling places on Election Day. Sad.

I don't believe that for one second. I'm an experienced lawyer and court watcher. My take on last week's argument in *Watson* is that, with the exception of Thomas and Alito, the conservatives did enough to validate a claim to still be in the club, but are unconvinced. I think they will ultimately vote to reverse the 5th Circuit on the principle that when Congress seeks to use its power to preempt well established state laws on topics specifically left to the states by the Constitution, it does so clearly and directly. On top of that they will rely on the *Purcell* rule that says big changes in election law should not be made on the eve of an election.

No one has a backbone anymore.

Is he trying to get of it altogether? Or is he trying to get a ruling that only votes that arrive by Election Day and are counted that day count? Paywall. It just feels like a continuation of the great lie and it happened to get all the way to the Supreme Court. Kinda suspect they will put some limits on mail in voting but not sure how the could wrap themselves up and ban it altogether. No matter what, Trump will declare victory or continue lying about the steal and his basket of deplorables will come along.  The other major problem is that he has a postmaster that hates the post office and would love to strip workers leading up to the election thus resulting in delays of mail ins even if they’re still allowed such that they would fall outside of the timeframe Also, there was recently a case where a postal worker straight up would t deliver mail to someone or some group they didn’t like. They were sued and the worker won. Meaning that if a worker feels like it, they can just not deliver mailings to areas or not deliver to the post office ballots from certain places they don’t want to. And no recourse is available.  The stage is set for mailins for Trump.  Vote. Early. And in person if at all possible and get a paper copy if possible

Never thought I would see America die.

Then that should be the day for the general strike. Anyone and everyone forced to work should refuse and go vote.

Then they need to be fired. They are there to uphold the law, not cave to any president.

My big worry is at election time Trump closes the post office

The Supreme Court is beyond corrupt and crooked. At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if the conservative justices okay mass deportations of American citizens based solely on race, religion, and political affiliation. There is literally nothing they won’t pass to push the GOP’s fascist ultra Christian conservative agenda. They piss on the constitution and our nation every day and laugh about it behind closed doors.

Not cave. Complicit.

I’ve been too ignorant, trying to post the articles from my phone to Listnook. I’ve had a stroke. I apologize that’s why the confusion about posting to Listnook.

The POS voted by mail this week, but it’s not ok for anyone else?

F*** packing the court, throw these corrupt pieces of shit in jail

Democrats need to make election day a Federal holiday. This needs to be a campaign issue.

Its pathetic that the highest court in the land is basically just a HR department for Trumps tantrums. They dont care that this would essentially throw out thousands of miltary ballots from people literally serving overseas. As long as he is happy, the rest of the country can burn.

Once again they will pulling something straight of their ass(ballots must arrive by and be counted on election day) that used to be left to the states. This basically means overseas and military voters will be completely disenfranchised.

I'm not even 100% sure who even benefits from mail in voting more. It's pretty close when it comes to party lines from.negat I understand. I'm not anything that makes it easier/more accessible for people to vote. I just don't think it is gonna help MAGA as much as they think it is, it's just that was one of crybaby Trump's sticking points when he lost BIGLY to Joe.

>paper ballots weren’t really a thing (which I explain in my best-selling book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws Ruining America, which you can find here, if you haven’t honored me by picking it up yet)... What kind of conceited a****** says this, "...if you haven't honored me"? Go f*** yourself, seriously lol

Capitulating with insurrectionists, foreign state backed insurrectionists, and self avowed terrorists is immediate grounds for disqualification. pretty sure the French have reliably demonstrated methods to successfully sort cowardice like this right out

Every ballot should be mail-in

I'm gonna call clickbait on this headline. Roberts and Gorsuch are both very much states-rights conservatives who are becoming wary of being seen as partisan stooges.

I’ve voted by mail for at least thirty years now. Sure seems like yet another solution looking for a problem.

The Supreme Court is compromised. If they won't rule unbiased then we need to simply ignore. Our system is tearing itself apart because of partisan politics, specifically right wing.

Oh great. So if he just acts like a toddler they'll cave eventually? I didn't realize we had permissive parents running our country

He doesn't care about mail in ballots. He needs to cause enough chaos close enough to an election so that he has plausible deniability to do something to invalidate votes. For example: 1. Reduce support for electoral locations, so people have to wait in long lines or mail in vote. 2. Supreme court rules week of election that mail in ballots are legal under certain circumstances. 3. Trump Republicans lose, but before the election ends they are already questioning legitimacy of elections. 4. They 'invalidate' votes from mail in ballots in specific districts trump lost in, saying that they were not valid because of the supreme court decision. 5. Trump Republicans win He will also have ICE at voting stations causing conflicts, because they will arrest people without reason and hold them until after voting is done. The only people who will oppose ice at voting booths will be Democrats, so they will get arrested. It also will look optically that "look at all these people ICE caught illegally voting"!

As that geriatric prick votes by mail-in ballot.

The issue isn't voting by mail. That is very unlikely to be overturned. The issue is the vote counting if it shows up after election day. This should be resolved by telling people to mail it earlier. Or give it to specific locations by specific dates.

"Likely to cave..." is an interesting way to put it. Caving means doing something they don't want to do. They absolutely want to side with Trump. Caving would be them upholding the law.

We just have to survive this rotten regime.

Putin got what he wanted for c****. the guy is on a budget and walked away a w*****

I live in WA. We do 100% mail in voting. They can say what they want. Let them come and enforce it.

It’s kinda weird how anti mail in ballot they are. A large portion of the GOP’s voter base is geriatric and would benefit greatly from mail in ballots. I guess they are really hoping for Gen Z MAGA males to show up in person to vote.

The man who just voted by mail is gonna ban it