Ari Berman
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first heard Jul 2026
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And that decision basically allowed corporations and individuals to give unlimited sums in secret to super PACs and to quote-unquote non-profit organizations.
And since that Citizens United decision, the amount of spending by billionaires has increased 160-fold.
There's been so many fights about the rules of the political system, and that's because the rules shape the political system to a great degree.
How much money you have, who draws your district.
what the voting laws look like in your state, how the votes are counted, how elections are certified.
These kind of debates have really been magnified in recent years, and particularly they've been magnified by Donald Trump because Trump is obsessed with the mechanics of voting.
And every time he feels like his party is losing, he tries to mess with the mechanics of voting in one way or another.
either trying to overturn the election or getting his party to gerrymander ahead of time to protect their vulnerable majority or whatever it might be.
And by and large, he has found a receptive audience in the Supreme Court.
The evidence shows that mail voting is safe and secure, and lots of states use it.
There are states that have all-mail elections for a long time, places like Oregon and Washington and even Republican-controlled states like Utah.
Alaska is another one that votes largely by mail.
And there's no evidence that those states have higher rates of fraud than states that vote a different kind of way.
And so the disturbing part of the dissent in the mail ballot case was that this was about a very narrow issue, whether ballots that are postmarked by Election Day can be counted if they're received in some period after.
The conservative justices who dissented made a much bigger argument
against mail voting, basically calling into question mail voting writ large.
And that's going to embolden Trump.
It's going to embolden Republican states to try to take more drastic action to end mail voting, even as lots of Republicans continue to vote by mail.
President Trump himself has voted by mail on numerous occasions, most recently in a special election for the Florida legislature.
And so often what we see is that even when the
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