BREAKING: SCOTUS Blocks Trump's Mail-In Ballot BS
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Strict Scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for separation of church and state. It's back to school season. And this year, 5 million children across Texas are going to be greeted by the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. Texas politicians passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. forcing their religion on every kid in those schools. 28 families in Texas, supported by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, are taking the fight to the Supreme Court. And we need you to amplify their voices before the Supreme Court gets its hands on this case. We've already talked about on the podcast how the Fifth Circuit decision allowing this practice was total BS.
I mean, it had to liken the Ten Commandments to basically like a poster, almost suggesting, oh, what, you triggered libs? But the reality is there's a human cost of Christian nationalist policies like these Ten Commandments laws, as well as the decisions the Supreme Court hands down. Public schools are supposed to be accessible to all. They're not supposed to be instructing on the state's preferred religion or the state's edited version of scripture. Visit au.org slash 10C to learn more about this case and how you can help join the fight to protect church-state separation.
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Mr Chief Justice, please report. It's an old joke, but when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they're going to have the last word. She spoke, not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity. She said, I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet
Hi, all. It is the ladies of strict scrutiny coming to you with a quick morning after analysis of the Supreme Court's decision to block the Trump administration's Postal Service regulation, announcing that the Postal Service did not want to deliver mail-in ballots unless states adopted a bunch of last-minute, unnecessary, very burdensome, and likely impossible-to-meet policies governing mail-in ballots.
OK, so the top line, most important thing to know in terms of the upcoming critical midterm elections is this. It is now crystal clear that under the law, the Trump administration cannot interfere with absentee voting via the Postal Service. That means if your state allows you to vote by mail, you will be able to do so consistent with your state's rules, regardless of the Trump administration's diabolical efforts to the contrary.
The Supreme Court told the administration that it cannot use the Postal Service to steal or rig an election by throwing out thousands of ballots and disenfranchising people. I'm just going to say, right answer, took a long time to get there. Specifically, the court declined to issue a stay, which is a pause of the lower court's ruling that had invalidated the Postal Service's regulation.
So we're going to spend a little bit of time analyzing what the court did, which is going to involve a fair bit of mocking Brett Kavanaugh, the most pathetic and needy pick-me justice who may have ever lived. And then Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas, who took their addled, pickled Fox News-consuming right-wing manosphere podcast listening brains to new lows. In addition to all of that, just wanted to emphasize, do not congratulate. Do not give the Supreme Court credit for telling Donald Trump that he doesn't have the power to rig an election in the sloppiest, most chaotic, wildly illegal, last-minute-dash way possible.
Shorter, Leah, do not give the Supreme Court credit for finally deciding to crack open their copies of the Constitution and read the elections clause. Okay. Just to remind you all, the other reason you ought not congratulate the Supreme Court is because this is the same court that just a few months ago killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for a little unprecedented, completely unorthodox, mid-cycling redistricting where Republicans are authorized and indeed...
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–14:29
2
What is the Supreme Court’s decision on the Trump‑admin Postal Service regulation?
14:29–15:45
3
How does the ruling affect mail‑in voting for the upcoming midterm elections?
15:45–17:27
4
Why do the hosts say the Court’s order blocks the administration from interfering with ballots?
17:27–19:35
5
What criticisms do they level at Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence?
19:35–29:20
6
How do the hosts explain the Court’s reasoning on “equitable factors” and likelihood of success?
29:20–34:31