Trump’s toady Postmaster General Louis DeJoy reversed course Tuesday, saying that all changes being made to the Postal Service would be suspended until after the November 3 election, after 20 Democratic state attorneys general announced plans to file federal criminal lawsuits. CNN reports, Postal Service backs down on changes as at least 20 states sue … Read more
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is taking time out from acting as Putin’s useful idiot pursuing his “smear of Joe Biden based on his efforts to end corruption in that country during his tenure as Obama’s vice president,” to hold a hearing on the U.S. Postal Service on Friday in an attempt to preempt the House … Read more
Update to The entire Republican Party apparatus is gearing up to suppress the vote in 2020 (excerpt): In 1982, the Republican Party agreed to a consent decree after Democrats sued it for activities at polling places that they said were aimed at suppressing the minority vote. The consent decree barred the organization from using voter challengers, … Read more
Donald Trump’s toady Postmaster General is now warning states that their absentee/early mail-in voting deadlines do not comport with his deliberate slow-down of the U.S. Postal Service. In Michigan, a state in which voters enacted by initiative a constitutional provision in 2018 guaranteeing the right to vote early by mail, the Detroit News reports: The … Read more
This coming Tuesday is the state primary election in the state of Minnesota. Here is a real-time example of how Donald Trump’s new Postmaster General’s plan to slow down the mail is impacting mail-in ballot voting during a pandemic. The Washington Post reports, Their mail was not delivered for days. Now these Minneapolis residents are … Read more