Brett Meiselas

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Trump Mail-In Ballot Scheme · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

You're not really injured. matched

They then go on to say, as for the plaintiff states, their claims are unlikely to succeed. matched

They claim the rule violates the election clause. matched

Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution. matched

This claim, however, collapses into an inquiry about whether the Postal Service has statutory authority to promulgate the rule, even assuming the rule here is a regulation of elections. matched

Congress may create such rules under the Election Clause. matched

and by statute, it may authorize the Postal Service to issue such rules. matched

Because litigants cannot convert claims that a federal entity has acted in excess of its statutory authority into constitutional claims, the crux of this dispute is whether the Postal Service has statutory authority to issue the rule. matched

You're like, Ben, that sounds like a lot of word salad. matched

It is a lot of word salad because these two right-wing extremist justices are trying to grasp at straws of how something that's clearly a state's right under Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1 can be converted into just everyday rulemaking by the Postal Service as though, yeah, matched

Of course, the Postal Service can change the way states do elections and then start to disqualify voters from mailing in ballots. matched

You see what they're trying to do here? matched

It then goes on to say, to assert a claim that an agency exceeded its statutory authority, the challenger needs a cause of action, which is typically provided by the Administrative Procedure Act. matched

However, Congress broadly exempted the exercise of powers matched

of the postal service from review under the apa it also challenge channeled many claims against the postal service to initial review before the postal regulatory commission followed by a review in the united states courts of appeals these provisions tightly constrain apa review of the postal service actions let me explain what they're trying to say here because what the postal service usually does is deal with mail matched

Congress has basically said, unless you're so far outside the bounds of what the Postal Service is going to be doing, the Postal Service isn't subject to the same Administrative Procedure Act claims because Congress never envisioned that the Postal Service would be used as a tool of an authoritarian regime to attack people's ability to vote, especially when Republicans profess to care about states' rights and elections matched

are a major one. matched

So people said, let the postal service be the postal service. matched

So the Trump regime tried to exploit that and basically say, well, the postal service has immunity. matched

So we say they have immunity now to infringe on state rights of elections. matched

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