edit please don’t comment on this post unless you want to tell me that you also think we are stupid! This headline sure is “youtube gotcha comment!” bait…

I am not speculating here: In June, Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed to Congress that under the rule, which was still being drafted at the time, the Postal Service would not deliver ballots in states that refuse to hand over their voter rolls to the Trump administration—a move that, if the rule were to take effect, would effectively disenfranchise tens of millions of people for the crime of living in a state Trump does not like. Sure enough, last Friday, the Postal Service released a proposal that does exactly as Steiner promised.

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    The structure, composition, appointment/approval process, and powers of the USPS Board of Governors is set by federal statute. It takes an act of Congress to modify any of it. Which of course comes back to the filibuster in the Senate and Senators Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman being the reason we couldn’t have nice things like this and unstacking the Supreme Court.

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      No, the Democratic parties willingness to let those things stand in the way is what it comes back to.