With the midterm elections less than 10 weeks away, the Supreme Court has lifted a lower court injunction on President Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail-in voting ahead of the midterms. Trump’s order directed the Department of Homeland Security to create state-by-state lists of eligible voters who are citizens. The U.S. Postal Service would then use the lists provided by states to assess if voters should be allowed to vote by mail. On Monday, justices ruled 6 to 3 that California and 22 other states lacked standing to sue over the issue. The ruling, however, did not address whether Trump had authority to impose the rules.

The court’s three liberal justices dissented. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that the majority opinion “needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections.”

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    3 hours ago

    And it will suffice.

    The whole system is based on rules not being applied in time (for example you can’t undemolish a west wing, even if the court rules it was illegal afterwards). They create facts and thats the win they need no matter what some judge says afterwards.

    In this case they can mess with the voters and influence the maybe most important election of this century.