Republicans and Donald Trump will do ANYTHING to cheat in the midterm elections (99 days from today!). Their latest dirty trick is to try to have the Supreme Court allow them to limit mail-in voting through the secretive “shadow docket.”
For those unaware, the Shadow Docket is a fast-track way to have an emergency ruled on without hearings. It handles “urgent” requests, like stays of execution, emergency injunctions and administrative stays. There are no oral arguments (ie, the other side doesn’t get to present); cases are decided literally behind closed doors without public hearings. The justices review short written arguments, and often the decision is made in a brief and unsigned ruling.
It is a DIRTY way of trying to squeeze something by, so of course Donald Trump is doing it in another attempt to put his fat little thumb on the scale for the November midterms.
The Washington Post is reporting that the Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court to give its blessing to a completely crazy executive order to place “major new restrictions” on mail-in ballots prior to the midterm elections.
Just last week a Massachusetts appeals court kept in place a block on the order, stating that it would “sow confusion” and “threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.”