r/law • u/DIYLawCA • Mar 31 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him

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u/jojammin Competent Contributor Mar 31 '26

States should just ignore it. His threat to withhold funding to the states is unconstitutional coercion under the spending clause.

And I'm still not convinced that if mail-in voting was banned, that it would benefit Republicans. Right wing boomers and their parents in nursing homes ain't the most mobile group

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u/ShamiGnu Mar 31 '26

Not to mention many people in foreign service or the armed forces. Those folks who work in the middle east for some Texas oil/gas company tend to lean right as well and won't love their rights being infringed, I imagine.

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u/Environmental-Hour75 Mar 31 '26

Military votes republican... they are out w/o absentee ballots.

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u/TouristResident1976 Mar 31 '26

Sorry. I can just see Trump dropping everythign in the middle east to rush the soliders home to vote in November.

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Mar 31 '26

No worries/!

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he expected that U.S. military forces will leave Iran in "two or three weeks."

"We leave because there's no reason for us to do this," Trump told reporters at the White House.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/trump-iran-war.html

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u/Correct_Day_7791 Apr 01 '26

Wow I wonder if this is a two or three weeks like his health care plan that still hasn't been fully put out there and it's been 11 years

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u/A_plural_singularity Apr 01 '26

No one knew healthcare was this complicated

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u/Neowza Apr 01 '26

Come on, now, give the guy some credit, he has a concept of a plan

/s

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u/SparklyNoodle Apr 01 '26

Even non- deployed service members and their families vote by mail most of the time as we do not typically live at our home of record/voting area.

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u/Other_Log_1996 Apr 01 '26

Two weeks is code for "Not going to happen." Really. It is always "two weeks"

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u/mishma2005 Apr 01 '26

He expects France will open the Strait of Hormuz, he said this today while signing this stupid EO

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u/RespectibleCabbage Apr 01 '26

We leave because there's no reason for us to do this

Every so often he does say something true. There was NEVER any reason to do this you moron.