Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Runs out of Time at Supreme Court

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Starting point is 00:02:22 Find your advisor at IGPrivatewealth.com. Time clock is ticking down on the United States Supreme Court to enter its ruling about whether they're going to let Donald Trump hijack the post office and deny you and me and 50 million other people your mail-in ballots for this midterm or beyond. We're now two days, soon to be three days after full briefing, in which the Supreme Court has received briefing even from postal workers that have told them it will be a catastrophe and impossible for them to double-check mail-in ballots against some half-baked citizenship portal that's not even properly rolled out nor trained on yet. And to start jerking around about envelope design with optical readers without training, it is impossible. they've told the court for the mail and the postal service to implement Donald Trump's executive order. And every day that we wait, because there is no administrative stay in place by the Supreme Court, they're letting the clock wind down. An injunction is still in place by Judge Talwani, Talwani up in Boston. her injunction blocks the postal service from even rolling out the portal, from rolling out or rejecting ballots,

Starting point is 00:03:44 and yet there is evidence that that is what they're still doing in violation of Judge Talwani's order. She tried to hold the ring with her a preliminary injunction. It was not blocked by the Supreme Court, neither by Katanji Brown Jackson, who's responsible for the First Circuit Court of Appeals out of Boston, nor by any other justice. And I want to also on this hot take give you my impression as to whether the fact that the Supreme Court in the last 24 hours has voted and sided with Missouri's Supreme Court

Starting point is 00:04:19 in terms of using a more pro-democratic map for congressional districting starting now, whether that ruling that comes through Justice Kavanaugh also indicates that they are going to block Donald Trump's attempt to hijack the post office, and they're going to support Judge Talwani's decision. And then I'm also going to give you a survivor kit, like a survival kit, for voting and using the mails here on the Bidus Touch Network on illegal AFs. Okay. Wednesday, 10 a.m., all briefs needed to be in related to.

Starting point is 00:05:02 whether Donald Trump can take over the post office and shut it down effectively and not deliver mail consisting of your ballot, nor deliver it back to election offices in time for the midterms or beyond. Donald Trump's effing with the mail because he knows he can't win, fair and square, if people vote in the numbers that are required. Now, I've already interviewed 15 Democratic Attorneys General that were in Detroit this week for their conference, their quarterly conference, this time about voting and voting protection. And they made it quite clear to me. I did an interview of Dana Nessel, the Attorney General of Michigan, and Rob Bonsa, the Attorney General of California on the same panel with me, talking about the impossibility. of executing on this particular plan. Here's a clip. Why don't you talk to our audience about what's at stake

Starting point is 00:06:04 with this mail-in ballot Supreme Court shadow docket ruling? Well, unfortunately, nothing less than the right to vote, the franchise, the right from which all of the rights flow is at stake and more and more people are voting by mail. It's become a way to avoid barriers, barriers and make sure that the right to vote is brought closer to more voters. And I think it's very clear that the United States Supreme Court should deny the federal government's request for a stay, that the preliminary injunction that's in place from the

Starting point is 00:06:39 federal district court should remain in place for a whole variety of reasons. You touched upon a couple of them. The most important is that this proposed rule by the United States Postal Service is illegal. The United States Postal Service, the president in the executive branch, they have have zero authority over determining the time, place, and manner of elections that is reserved by the U.S. Constitution to the states and to a degree to Congress. It's also not something that can be implemented. As you mentioned, the portal is not open. The federal government is saying, do this thing immediately, and we're not ready for you. So wait a few more days as the clock ticks

Starting point is 00:07:16 and we move closer and closer to the election. There was a whistleblower who said that this process has been sloppy and rough. that there are catastrophic risks potentially here. They are trying to pilot something during an actual election. And there's rules against making changes like this, particularly the Purcell principle, which says when you get into a certain window close enough to an election, you don't interfere with the election. You let the existing rules play out.

Starting point is 00:07:46 If you wish, you can wait for the next election. Here, I think the court addressing the substance for the first time, hopefully we'll make a declaration that the United States Postal Service and the president have no say in determining the time, place, and manner of elections, or, you know, including a citizenship list administered and implemented by the United States Postal Service in this election or any election. I hope they put it to bed permanently. That would be appropriate. That would be consistent with the law. Just delivered the damn mail. Okay. So what does it mean that the Supreme Court? in the last 24 hours, sided with the Missouri Supreme Court against the Secretary of State of Missouri and is requiring that a 2022 map that's more pro-democrat be used instead of a 2025 map, does that indicate that there are also votes

Starting point is 00:08:41 to deny Donald Trump a win at the post office in the case that's pending there, which matters to the rest of us, 50 million people voted by mail the last time around. Do you snore? Did somebody hand you a CPAP and did you quietly stop using it? The mask that never quite seals, the hose tugging at you every time you roll over and a machine sitting abandoned in a closet. Packing it for a trip and then deciding it's not worth it.

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Starting point is 00:09:47 Risks and benefits at spring sleep.com. My impression from being a regular commentator and analyst about things the United States Supreme Court is that they're not really related. See, the Supreme Court bends over backwards, usually about maps, usually supporting the Republicans. But when it comes to voting, they take a different tact. On balance, they don't like interference with the right to vote. And on mail-in balloting, back in June, they entered a ruling against the Trump administration about mail-in ballots, particularly, particularly a ruling that mail-in ballots could come in after an election, as long as they were postmarked the day of an election, and didn't have to be

Starting point is 00:10:42 counted on the day of elections. Donald Trump wanted all mail-in ballots in on the same day on election day and counted on election day, which is absolutely impossible. and that was shot down and rejected by even the MAGA on the Supreme Court like Amy Cody Barrett. I think that case is your data point for as we wait on this ruling. That's why I was not shocked that Katanji Brown Jackson did not enter an administrative stay and nobody objected to that. She did not block Judge Talwani's injunction stopping this process, protecting the mail-in ballots while they were considering it. And days have ticked off.

Starting point is 00:11:23 It's not just Wednesday till Friday. It's been going on since last week. There's been about six or seven days that have ticked off the midterm clock on mail-in ballots. So by running out the clock and not caring about the clock, I think that combined with the mail-in ballots decision from June is an indicator that the Supreme Court is going to side against Trump is going to side with the Senate. Judge Talwani is going to block the post office being weaponized and some sort of double check against some list to deny you your mailing ballot. I believe that is what we're going to report

Starting point is 00:12:04 on legal AF and on the Midas Dutch Network. If I put all the data points around it, I believe that's what's going to happen. But for me, what just happened about congressional maps in Missouri is not necessarily going to dictate what their voting pattern is going to be about mail-in ballots. I do believe that the June decision in favor and supporting mail-in ballots is a more likely indicator that they're going to support mail-in ballots again and protect it

Starting point is 00:12:33 from the evil clutches of even Donald Trump. I asked the panelists that I spoke to, the Democratic attorneys general, about whether our audience should worry about the vote and worry about their mail-in balloting. And here's a clip. Do you think, A.G. Refield, do you think these United States Supreme Court sees through this? Do you think that at least when it comes to this particular executive order and this attack on mail-in-balloting, that they're going to side with the rule of law? Unquestionably. And I feel very confident. I mean, the Constitution's incredibly clear. I think it's clear to Americans that this really isn't about mail-in voting. Because all of us want the same thing. We want accurate, honest elections, right? We want to be able to cast our ballot.

Starting point is 00:13:21 for who we want to represent us, and then have that ballot be counted, whether or not we win or not. That's why our country's founded on. I believe the Supreme Court justice feel the exact same way, and what the Trump administration is doing right now is not about trying to have accurate and fair elections,

Starting point is 00:13:36 about rigging the elections, about power. It's about retaining power, and what can they do before election day to manipulate the votes they get counted? So here's the survival guide. Vote early. Vote early. make sure he square it away. If you vote by mail, you have a tracking number. Use the tracking number to figure out whether your ballot has been received and counted. If it gets too close to the election

Starting point is 00:14:03 and it should have been there, but it's not, maybe because of the post office or otherwise, then vote a provisional ballot, write that down, a provisional ballot that you can get from your election office. And then if your mail-in ballot doesn't arrive, your provisional ballot becomes your vote. So that's very important. If you don't vote provisionally and your ballot doesn't show up, you didn't vote at the midterms. In addition, if you get your mail-in ballot, either because you went and picked it up yourself or you got it through the mail, when you deliver it back, while you could use the post office,

Starting point is 00:14:38 why risk it? Take it or have somebody drop it off for you in one of those secure metal ballot boxes that are out at various locations. you can find them online in your state, in your area, near your precinct, and get that ballot into that box to be counted. Trust that process. So once you square away voting, then you can continue to do things like helping to register people to vote, be an election watcher, a poll watcher,

Starting point is 00:15:09 inside or outside polling places on election day. But square away your vote. Vote by mail, but deliver it back to a, box. Vote provisionally if you don't see your mail-in ballot show up on time. And if you see anything that looks suspicious in the polling place, on the way to the polling place, any kind of interference or harassment, armed guards, checkpoints, you name it, call your state's attorney general, especially if you're in a blue state, because they are ready for it. You don't have to scramble around like, I wonder who I call. Call your state's attorney general. They are the ones that are leading

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Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Runs out of Time at Supreme Court

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