On Friday, a three‑judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously paused a lower‑court injunction that had temporarily blocked the USPS from finalising and enforcing the new ballot‑delivery rule.
The rule would permit the Postal Service to withhold delivery of mail‑in and absentee ballots where state officials decline to send certain voter data to federal authorities. In practice, that sets up a confrontation between states determined to guard sensitive voter information and a federal agency now claiming it cannot guarantee accurate ballot delivery without it.
We all already know that, but they’re our biggest trading partner and we can’t change that overnight. They also have the world’s biggest military, and pissing them off or just passively letting them destabilize in general is going to be very bad for everyone on earth, and I’m saying that in full knowledge of how bad America has already been for everyone on earth. It can still get worse.