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- news@lemmy.world
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s push to force California to set aside thousands of ballots from people the federal government claims are noncitizens, a decision that came hours before the final day of voting in the pivotal midterm elections.
The high court refused to immediately intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the largely Democratic state’s voter rolls.
The swift rejection capped a string of losses for the president’s effort to intervene in the election before the counting of ballots to decide who controls Congress in the last two years of his second term. No justices publicly dissented.
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If I’m not mistaken, that’s not even possible to do at this point, because any ballots returned have already been separated from their cover envelopes and are now anonymous.
Which they’re now going to use as an argument to invalidate the entire state’s election.
And that argument won’t work.
Probably. But they’re definitely going to try it.
We’re gonna get a shadow docket ruling in favor of the administration, aren’t we
Last I knew, the states had the right to determine their own processes, so we’d better not, or it’ll be a serious nail in the coffin for what’s left of the SC’s legitimacy.
That’s the neat part about a literal coup…
We had damn well better not.
Aside from the lack of merit, and the intrusion on state sovereignty contrary to the 10th amendment, this supreme court spent much of the last 4 or 5 years haranguing lower courts for intervening to block illegal district maps too close to the election. It’s called the Purcell Principle: it’s better to allow some illegal aspect of an election to occur than to disrupt the democratic process. The cutoff deadline the supreme court used in these map cases was months or even years in advance of the election. They can’t turnaround and say now it’s okay to intervene and disrupt when the election is less than 24 hours away.
I agree, however this court has already made rulings interrupting elections while the elections were ongoing. Soooo, I still wonder if they’re gonna go ahead and fuck this up on purpose.
So far at least the distinction has been whether it’s a state disrupting its own election or a federal court.
Federal court coming in and disrupting a state’s election: not okay. State screwing up its own election: It’s not our place to tell them what to do.
June 2, 2026, the Supreme Court issued an unsigned order allowing Alabama to use its 2026/2023 congressional map, overriding a lower-court ruling that had blocked it as a potential racial gerrymander under the Voting Rights Act. The majority cited its earlier ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which tightened the standards for VRA challenges. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented, warning of election confusion
Just sayin
They’ve already ruled against him several times on big issues including election stuff, so not necessarily.
True. But this is a very deep, some might even say a core Republican lie. They’re going to take some flack either way. Either from the Republican base for not reinforcing their beliefs. Or from the system when they actively enable a coup. It just depends on which they fear most.
They’ve ruled against him several times on core MAGA/P2025 issues.
This is older, deeper than Maga. This goes all the way back to the previous fascist-actor president. Maybe even older. It’s basic rush doctrine. (May he be chained in raw sewage and flayed for all eternity.) Tying back directly to the mythical great replacement they’ve been told for 50 years has been happening. Of Democrats bussing and flying illegals cross country to steal elections. They may grouse if trump loses a vanity project or two. But the reason trump is picking at this, is because for half a century, every rural rube, every low information conservative cunt had been told this as fact. So when Republicans attacked and silenced voters. It was justified because they imagined it had happened to them first. They were simply responding in kind, to things that never happened. Its basic Republican voter grievance politics. Not maga.
Tying back directly to the mythical great replacement they’ve been told for 50 years has been happening. Of Democrats bussing and flying illegals cross country to steal elections.
Makes me wonder just how far back the projection goes.
Not too many more decades. Pre civil rights act, the parties were much closer on these issues than one might think. Democrats moved on it before Republicans did. It could have very easily been different. But that was definitely the inflection point.
Since then the culture of grievance had been purposefully cultivated. Only gotten worse. They’re was always an undercurrent. But that’s when it became a party plank.
In a surprising turn of events, no we are not. Even more surprising, it was a resounding enough “No.” that the court didn’t even ask for California’s side of the argument, they just said no. It’s almost the appropriate response to this bullfuckery; the only thing missing is impeachment, removal from office, and the entire administration on trial for treason.
With a two-word explanation that only reads “national security”.
Look SCOTUS, it’s exactly what we told you they were going to do, when you gave them the OK because they didn’t really intend to do this, and now they are. Maybe your decision should have been less stupid and more direct in reiterating that they have ZERO role in conducting elections.
Let’s say that the rate of some cancer in the population is 1 in 400,000, and there’s a cheap and non-invasive screening test for this cancer that is pretty accurate. The screening test has a false positive rate of just 0.1%.
If you screen 10,000,000 regular people with the test, it might find around 25 who really have the cancer. But it will also flag 10,000 healthy people for additional testing that is more invasive, carries its own unwarranted medical risks, and imposes unnecessary costs. No medical board is going to recommend applying this screening test to the general population.
Anyhow, the original post was about voting.
The funny thing, to me, about this is it’s California. 20,000 votes isn’t likely to sway any election It’s just his petty, petulant bullshit.
It’s not in any way “petty, petulant bullshit”, any more than a straw sized hole in a dam is “just a little leak”. The results of it succeeding would be the same for the government as it would be for the dam.
It’s not in any way “petty, petulant bullshit”,
Yes it is. Everything he does is.
Sitting in the destruction of every government service and law meant to protect people and the environment at least somewhat from disease, pollution, crime, and natural disasters, while masked gestapo throw people into concentration camps and death camps, as PoC, women, and queer people are quickly losing all rights and autonomy, while the current topic is about the specific machinations of how a disease ridden pedophile is in the endgame of solely controlling the entire country, I’m going to say you have a broken sense of what “petty” and “bullshit” means.
What I mean is that it’s all based on his fragile fucking ego. Jesus Christ,.so you think I’m defending him?
Nope
No, it’s a deliberate attempt to undermine the democratic process by sowing doubt.
I never said otherwise. It can be both.
