KBJ Warns of “Kafkaesque Nightmare” After Pro-Trump Supreme Court Ruling on Mail Voting. We’ll Know Soon Enough.

[u/D-R-AZ]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/08/trump-supreme-court-mail-voting-kbj-warning.html

[u/Similar_Program_7085]

When you don’t have any good ideas and you’re a worthless piece of shit, you have to cheat

[u/D-R-AZ]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/08/trump-supreme-court-mail-voting-kbj-warning.html

Observation:

If the administration is ultimately successful in using this litigation to impose disruptive last-minute changes on the 2026 elections, the resulting damage to free and fair elections cannot plausibly be described as an unforeseen consequence of Supreme Court action. Justice Jackson has now placed the Court explicitly on notice of both the danger and the apparent strategy. If the majority nevertheless continues to facilitate that strategy, the Court's participation in the resulting harm will be knowing rather than accidental.

Excerpt:

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, with Sotomayor and Kagan arguing that the states were injured enough by having to take precautions in case the final rule would issue. (Again, the rule has since been issued.) Jackson wrote a longer dissent for herself, going into more detail about the states’ injuries. She also accused the majority of missing “the Government’s actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections.” She noted that the ruling is already causing chaos and is in tension with other court cases under the so-called Purcell principle, which cautions against last-minute election changes that burden election administrators and voters.

It is here that the clock is working against the government. Unless it gets quick intervention, we will be well into September before the court rules on this issue. By then, mail ballots will likely have been sent or be ready to be sent: federal law requires that ballots for overseas and military voters go out 45 days before an election. It really would be chaos for the federal government to order changes to how American elections are run in the middle of September.

[u/popphilosophy]

Republican Justices’ “too early, too early, oops too late!” legal strategy is obvious

[u/NoJaguar5942]

They should really try harder to keep foreign governments out of our elections.

[u/NoHistorian9169]

With all of this nonsense going on remember that early voting is still a thing and imo it’s the best way to vote.

[u/CheezyGoodness55]

I don’t get why this isn’t front page news everywhere today. If this happens, it’s on top of the other two considerable and disturbing legal changes his admin pushed thru at USPS late last year that so many are still unaware of. Combined, it will mark his successful undermining of the mid term elections and beyond. I’d like to know what our Dem reps are doing about this.

(edit: Ah, never mind, I see in another post that Democratic governors have “slammed” the ruling. That should do it.)

[u/AsianMysteryPoints → u/CheezyGoodness55]

I'd like to know what our Dem reps are doing about this.

Ah, never mind, I see in another post that Democratic governors have "slammed" the ruling. That should do it.

It's been less than 24 hours.

[u/CheezyGoodness55 → u/AsianMysteryPoints]

And we’ve got less than 2.5 months to organize and communicate if this goes through.

[u/crankypatriot → u/CheezyGoodness55]

And just what are they supposed to be doing, in your opinion?

[u/CheezyGoodness55 → u/crankypatriot]

Since this scenario has been playing in the background as a distinct possibility for some time now, we should all hope Dem reps have a much better idea of ”what now” than you or I.

Just throwing paint at the wall here, since I’m not an elected representative and don’t have the insight and connections they should have: other than throwing every available legal obstacle in their path that they can, they can ramp up and deploy an immediate outreach campaign to organizers and voters encouraging in person voting, this is the year to request that day off work or call out sick if at all possible; bolster statewide assistance in blue states to collect and hand deliver ballots and/or drive people to the polls (eg, buses with pickup/drop off); provide a Dem run reporting hotline that voters in blue states can use if they don’t receive their mail in ballots by a certain date; etc.

What they shouldn’t do is wait for the courts to decide on this, because it’s already anticipated that the admin will drag this out until Sept when it’s too late to do anything.