Supreme Court Allows Mail-In Voting; EPA Rolls Back Limits on Power Plant Emissions
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One political activist here who works on AI policy put it to me this way. He said, You know, before everybody had their range of pet issues, but now AI is clearly the alligator that's closest to the boat. And so everybody wants to be part of the same team and row away from the alligator together.
Hi, everybody, and welcome to Here's the Scoop from NBC News. I'm Yasmovistudio. So over the last few weeks, we have been talking a lot about AI. Well, today there is a pro-human assembly happening in Washington, D.C. What is that, you ask? Well, we're not quite sure, except we are talking now to Jared Perlow, our NBC AI reporter, who's on the ground for us there. And we understand that Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Steve Bannon, are There and then some other folks, some from Hollywood as well, that are there. So we're gonna talk about that. And then there is the EPA who is rolling back restrictions on emissions from power plants. The announcement was made uh down in Texas. And there could be consequences to both our environment and our health.
Uh first though, so there's been a lot of back and forth about Mellon voting ahead of them in terms, but this week the Supreme Court made it official that your postal vote is going to in fact count. In a seven to two vote, the justices blocked President Trump's executive order to restrict the practice, rejecting the administration's emergency application. And President Trump clearly was not happy about it. He slammed the justices on True Social, including the ones that he nominated, saying That they lacked courage and were shells of their former selves. So is this finally over? Are mail and ballots back for good, or can we expect more litigation before or after the midterms? For this, I want to bring in Jane Seatim.
She's a senior political reporter for us, covering all things elections. What does the C stand for? Carrie. Jane Carrie Tim, JCT. All right, remind us of this order, what it said and why
The Supreme Court blocked it. So back in March, President Trump ordered the federal government to create lists of citizens and give them to the Postal Service and said, only deliver ballots to those people. Once the rules were finally made through the USPS, it turned into election officials giving the post office lists of citizens that were on their voter rolls and saying, only deliver ballots to the people we've told you to deliver ballots to. inserting them into the process in this incredibly complex way. The order from the Supreme Court says it's too close to the election. We can't enforce this and it's not gonna happen this year. Why was the president so set on doing this? You know, the president has been saying for years that there's rampant non-citizen voting, that mail ballots are rife with fraud.
There's no evidence for these things. A handful of non-citizens cast a ballot every year. Usually, by accident, voter fraud is incredibly rare. Uh but particularly non-citizen voter fraud is even rarer. I know that
you've been in touch with folks that administer elections all over the country. How are they reacting to SCOTUS's decision?
I mean, they are breathing the biggest sigh of relief they're going to have this election because they know they couldn't have implemented this by the midterms. Uh, for one, the USPS did not appear to be ready to implement this. Their portal wasn't ready. It would had errors, according to a whistleblower who came forward. States themselves across the country said, We simply can't do this. I mean, you have to remember that election officials plan their elections. Months, years in advance, the ballot envelopes have been printed and purchased. And this order required people to have special ballot envelopes with barcodes on them so that the USPS could scan them and they could be tracked in these certain ways.
Uh, this simply was not possible to do this year. This was ordered in March for a November election. Inconceivable for most election officials.
So There has been so much back and forth with this executive order, right?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:36
2
What did the Supreme Court decide about the Trump mail‑in voting order?
4:36–7:20
3
How are state election officials reacting to the SCOTUS decision on mail ballots?
7:20–19:52
4
Will mail‑in voting remain unchanged for the upcoming midterm elections?
19:52–22:06
5
Could future lawsuits reopen the fight over mail voting after the midterms?
22:06–27:38
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