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General Discussion >> America >> BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1789436220 Message started by Armchair_Politician on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:37am |
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Title: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:37am
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country, rebuffing a proposal that election officials warned would have had catastrophic consequences if allowed to take effect for this year’s midterms.
In one of the most significant cases to appear on the court’s quick-turn docket in years, a majority of the justices blocked the procedure that would have given the US Postal Service the unprecedented power to withhold potentially millions of mail ballots. Even some GOP election officials cautioned that the proposal could lead to chaos and mass disenfranchisement. The court said that the administration “is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge” but offered little explanation in its three-sentence, unsigned order. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. The decision is a significant loss for the president, who for years has railed against mail voting with false allegations of extensive fraud, while continuing to vote by mail himself. The administration had framed its proposal as a “modest” change to postal regulations intended to protect against that alleged fraud. Trump’s critics, however, described the maneuver as an unconstitutional power grab that the US Postal Service wasn’t even fully prepared to carry out. CNN has reached out to the White House for comment. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a member of the court’s conservative wing, wrote a concurrence explaining that he thought the proposal may be within the authority of the USPS, but that “state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.” That appeared to be a recognition of a flood of briefs from state and local election officials who argued there simply was not time this late in the election process to implement the president’s order. But it also suggested that Kavanaugh could be gettable for the president, along with Alito and Thomas, to try the changes for a future election. In his dissent, Alito said he didn’t believe the practical concerns of implementing the rule raised by many election officials was enough for the states and voting rights groups that challenged the rule to win. “The government has a strong interest in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also ‘enhance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail’ in order to better detect election fraud,” Alito wrote. “On the other side of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical effects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elections. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not enough to convince me to deny the application.” “That Hail Mary pass is unlikely to be successfully completed here,” Alito wrote. “The Postal Service has broad authority to regulate the mail.” https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/14/politics/supreme-court-rejects-trump-plan-to-limit-mail-in-voting-in-midterms |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:37am
Excellent news. One less way for Trump to rig the election in his favour.
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by greggerypeccary on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:39am Excellent news, indeed :) Although, if the Dems have a significant win in the mid-terms, Trump and his ball licker - Mike Johnson - won't accept the results. If the GOP can't rig the election they'll just deny the outcome. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Sprintcyclist on Sep 15th, 2026 at 5:59pm Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:37am:
so what, he will totally ignore the judges. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by greggerypeccary on Sep 15th, 2026 at 6:18pm Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 5:59pm:
Indeed. And the election results. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Enquiring mind on Sep 15th, 2026 at 9:22pm
SO UNFAIR !!!
LAWFARE !!! ELECTORAL INTERFERENCE !!! RIGGED WITCH HUNT !!! STOP THE COUNT !!! |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Frank on Sep 15th, 2026 at 10:16pm
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Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:37am:
Not a big loss. A temporary setback. The timing is the issue, not the principle, not the authority of the Executive to make the rule, nor for the Postal Service to implement and regulate mail-in vote with sufficient lead-in time. It will be in place for tgd 2028 election. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Enquiring mind on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:15pm Frank wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 10:16pm:
Despite a Supreme Court ruling? Oh ja, we forgot. A massive fraud of this kind allows for the termination of all rules, laws and articles, including those in the Constitution. Rule of law, innit. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Frank on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:40pm Enquiring mind wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:15pm:
You didnt read/comprehend TDS Politician's post, did you, paki? Not in Urdu, no speaka? |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 16th, 2026 at 5:57am greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 6:18pm:
and his wife and do you notice she doesn’t let him know she’s right there, she just lets him dig himself into a deeper hole and continue to look stupid… https://youtu.be/Sq2mLNIVzcw?si=bdeesVFHAa6KEKen |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 16th, 2026 at 6:00am Frank wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 10:16pm:
I know who you remind me of - a certain knight and a certain former Iraqi minister... https://youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs?si=rZc6N6BLWFLFsuIL https://youtu.be/loujYg0y7Vk?si=DPbIkkB7XwJCGNd8 |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Frank on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:19am Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 6:00am:
You do not understand your own post, duffer. That appeared to be a recognition of a flood of briefs from state and local election officials who argued there simply was not time this late in the election process to implement the president’s order. But it also suggested that Kavanaugh could be gettable for the president, along with Alito and Thomas, to try the changes for a future election. On the other side of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical effects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elections. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not enough to convince me to deny the application.” No time to implement the order. The principle that forms the basis of the order is not dismissed or discussed even. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:37am Frank wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:19am:
Given how close it is to the midterms, you have to ask why Trump didn’t do this much, much sooner. The reason is simple. He didn’t think he would be so unpopular and polling so badly that he would need to resort to this sort of behaviour. He expected to be feted and loved and hugely popular, so why would he need to rig things in his favour? That’s why he’s rushing to try to do this, and also redraw electoral maps. He’s desperate! |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by greggerypeccary on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:54am Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:37am:
Extremely desperate. If the Dems do well in the mid-terms Trump will be a lame-duck President, and he'll spend the rest of his life facing impeachment and criminal charges. Unless he defects to Russia. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:59am greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:54am:
It's not just him. It'll be Blanche, Kegseth, Patel and others who will face real scrutiny and possibly impeachment and conviction with a Democrat controlled Congress. But yes, the Democrats will be able to effectively bring an end to the Trump presidency in practical terms, as they should. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Frank on Sep 16th, 2026 at 10:34am Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:59am:
If that happens the DEMS will go so nutty and deranged for 2 years that a Republican victory in 2028 will be virtually guranteed. If the DEMS win in 2028 then America as we know it will be over. The DEMS are not the same as the FDR or Kennedy Dems. They are now AOC, Mamdani, Somali tranny jihadi socialists, mad on every identity, race, grievance mongering. They will go the way of England. Biden was a farce, the next Dem prez will be a tragedy. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by greggerypeccary on Sep 16th, 2026 at 10:38am Frank wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 10:34am:
:D ;D |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Bobby. on Sep 16th, 2026 at 10:39am greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:39am:
More homo talk. Pecca, get a job and pay some taxes - ya lazy bum. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Carl D on Sep 16th, 2026 at 10:42am Frank wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 10:34am:
I can't wait for the "America as we know it" right now to be over. Even better if it ends with one Donald J. Trump going to prison for the rest of his (hopefully very short) life. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 16th, 2026 at 11:18am Frank wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 10:34am:
You've really got to quit whatever it is you're smoking. It's rotted your brain to the point you are incapable of anything other than regurgitating Trump talking points. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by greggerypeccary on Sep 16th, 2026 at 11:24am Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 11:18am:
Yep - that's TDS. They can't think for themselves. They can only repeat what their DL tells them. "Magnets don't work if they get wet" - sure, they believe it. "Vandals attacked the reflecting pool" - they swallow it, even though the contractor has admitted that it was his fault. "The price of medications have dropped by 1,500%" - sounds like good maths to them. "Russian oligarchs, with very close ties to Putin, funding the DL's son's wedding" - nothing to see here. It's a cult like no other. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 16th, 2026 at 11:58am greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 11:24am:
"Lets inject disinfectant into people's veins to kill the COVID virus" - DJT :o |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Enquiring mind on Sep 16th, 2026 at 2:06pm Frank wrote on Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:40pm:
Oh, I speaka. We've even highlighted your position. Do you know what you are, dear boy? You're a constitutional conservative. We mean this in the nicest possible way, no? |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Frank on Sep 16th, 2026 at 8:43pm
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a landmark decision just weeks before people head to the polls to vote in the midterms, the United States Supreme Court ruled that securing elections was unconstitutional.
Despite efforts from the Trump administration to secure U.S. elections by restricting mail-in ballots and ensuring only citizens would be allowed to vote, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that declared any attempt to prevent widespread fraud from rigging elections to be a clear violation of the Constitution. "Making sure elections are legal is illegal," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the majority opinion. "There is no provision in the Constitution for securing elections so that they can't be tampered with and stolen. Any attempts made by the current administration to instill confidence in our electoral process are hereby null and void. Also, what is a Constitution, anyway?" Though the decision was not unanimous, several justices on the court agreed that securing elections goes against everything the Founding Fathers intended. "Free and fair elections aren't what this country was built on," said Justice Elena Kagan. "If someone wants to hatch a plan to create hundreds of thousands of falsified mail-in ballots to swing an election in a certain direction, who are we to stand in their way? This is a free country, and that includes the freedom to cheat in elections." The Trump administration vowed to continue the fight for election integrity despite the nation's highest court ruling in favor of removing all safeguards against fraud. At publishing time, the Supreme Court had issued a ruling declaring the Constitution unconstitutional. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by greggerypeccary on Sep 16th, 2026 at 8:54pm Frank wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 8:43pm:
You honestly believe this propoganda, don't you? You've completely lost the ability to think for yourself. TDS has destroyed your brain. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Carl D on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:27pm greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 8:54pm:
With more than a little help from the Babylon Bee. As usual. ::) |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Frank on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:36pm greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 8:54pm:
I believe you are a dim, plonking idiot. Completely. |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Enquiring mind on Sep 16th, 2026 at 10:32pm Frank wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 8:43pm:
Your DL's just blasted the Supreme Court. Not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves, DL said, all butthurt and unconstitutional. He is very frustrated, Todd said, sympathizing with his client. It's not every day they disobey DL and uphold the Constitution. LAWFARE !!! But that's okay. He'll find other ways to overturn the mid-terms, as you well know. STOP THE COUNT !!! |
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Title: Re: BIG loss at Supreme Court for Trump!!!! Post by Armchair_Politician on Sep 17th, 2026 at 7:19am Frank wrote on Sep 16th, 2026 at 9:36pm:
Right back at you, Dumbo! |
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