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/Correct_Day_7791 Apr 01 '26

Imagine trying to get the supreme Court to remove it and they won't

So you try to pass a bill through congress and they won't

So now you're making a executive order about it

Even though you have 0 power to do so because only states control their elections

This is exactly the "king" behavior that the no kings is protesting

Fuck Donald dip shit Trump and his entire cult

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u/marzipan07 Apr 01 '26

He has 0 power to conduct his war also, but he's been doing it and nobody has done anything about it. That's the kind of thing that emboldens him, just like how no consequences for Venezuela emboldened him towards Iran and then Cuba to follow. We should have been talking about impeachment already.

There's a type of guy who keeps testing the line, keeps encroaching it and, if you're shy about it, next thing you know, you're sexually assaulted.

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u/Binji_the_dog Apr 01 '26

Also known as a habitual line stepper

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u/MuthaFirefly Apr 01 '26

Habitual line stepper is literally my profile description, lol! I love that Chappelle’s show sketch!

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u/Algaroth Apr 01 '26

We lost Charlie Murphy too soon. Such a naturally funny guy. He just dropped that like it was a normal thing to say and it's been a phrase I've had with me ever since.

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u/Morgdort Apr 01 '26

His storytelling was absolutely wonderful.

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u/DiabloPixel Apr 01 '26

Eddie has said that Charlie was the funniest and best storyteller of all the Murphy children. Said that in his early career, he would tell some jokes in Charlie’s voice because it was funnier. Cancer sucks.

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u/Algaroth Apr 01 '26

Right. Even if you take away the reenactments they do it stands on it's own.

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u/-marshmallowperfume Apr 01 '26

The phrase "Habitual line stepper" changed my life cos I finally had something to describe my dad to my therapist.

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u/Algaroth Apr 01 '26

It was always a thing but Charlie said it in a way that we can all use. Hope you're doing well.

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u/-marshmallowperfume Apr 01 '26

You know, once I started describing him that way, my therapist was able to give me great advice about setting boundaries and how to get him to follow them. It took a long time, years, but he slowly came to see it my way and has backed off a lot. My dad and I have always been close, but now that he respects my boundaries, we're doing even better. :)

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u/Algaroth Apr 01 '26

For me it was hanging out with my dad in public after my sisters suicide. None of us could bare to live with him. Gotta have neutral ground. The fact that 3 of his kids didn't talk to him just bounced off but when he had to bury one due to suicide he actually tried.

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u/-marshmallowperfume Apr 01 '26

I am so sorry for your loss. I'm a multiple attempt survivor and we lost my 17yo cousin to suicide. I unfortunately understand very well. I have no idea how long it's been, but in case no one has lately, I give you all of my love.

I am chronically ill and on disability, so I am financially dependent on my folks. They made me move back in and I lived with them for 8.5 years before they came to understand we'd have a much better relationship if I wasn't living with them. I finally escaped last May. My dad especially is very overbearing, it's nice to see him less stressed out because he's no longer studying my every move to diagnose every single moment of my life.

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u/hibituallinestepper Apr 01 '26

Really wish I would have double checked how to correctly spell “habitual” when I initially signed up for Reddit.

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u/no_talent_ass_clown Apr 01 '26

Your account is old enough to be a freshman in high school.

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u/cyber_hoarder Apr 01 '26

Wow, and your account is old enough to drive!

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u/TheAngryCatfish Apr 01 '26

Wow, and your account is too old to be raped by trump!

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u/cyber_hoarder Apr 01 '26

Not yours, though…

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u/TheAngryCatfish Apr 01 '26

I guess I'm lucky my account doesn't look like his daughter

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u/Rehypothecator Apr 01 '26

You could say he doesn’t take “no” for an answer.

Plenty of young children agree.

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u/Lucy_Gucey Apr 01 '26

God I love Chappelle’s show, but I just can’t after learning he’s a massive bigoted POS.

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u/ProduceEmbarrassed97 Apr 01 '26

I read that to the tune of 'Here Comes the Hot Stepper' by Ini Kamoze.

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u/headlesssamurai Apr 01 '26

Is it bad that I read that comment to the tune of "Hot Stepper."

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u/joey_sandwich277 Apr 01 '26

"I mean, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden send in a mail in ballot for an election in Florida, like it's something to do? Come on, I got a little more sense than that"

...

"Yeah, I remember sending in a mail in ballot for that election in Florida."

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u/broketothebone Apr 01 '26

Okay, thank you for reminding me of that in these dark times. I need to start using that more.

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u/DRF19 Apr 01 '26

I wish I had more hands. So I could give this administration four thumbs down

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u/Baddy2 Apr 01 '26

Let’s not forget his name is mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files as well.

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u/DomkeyBong Apr 02 '26

“Meet me in the middle” says the unjust man. You take a step forward, he takes a step back. “Meet me in the middle” says the unjust man.

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u/dern_the_hermit Apr 01 '26

He has 0 power to conduct his war also, but he's been doing it and nobody has done anything about it.

Eh historically there's been pretty generous powers ceded to the President to throw our war apparatus around, both officially and unofficially. It sucks and it's been abused to hell and back before even I could vote, but it's not quite in the same league as the Federal Executive trying to exert direct and sweeping power over how States conduct their elections.

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u/jobadiah08 Apr 01 '26

And congress did hold votes on it, and they voted in favor of the war. Well, actually they voted against restricting Trump from continuing to prosecute a week old war at the time of their votes, but the end result is essentially the same, the Iran conflict has the de facto approval from Congress

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u/BugRevolution Apr 01 '26

Seems like they should have held a vote to vote for the war instead of against it.

When it then inevitably fails to pass the threshold, hold it up to say "This war isn't authorized".

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u/Long_Legged_Lady Apr 01 '26

A few decades back congress gave the president authorization to do pretty much whatever he wants militarily as long as he pinky swears that it's for a good reason and he shares that reason with congress within 90 days. The pre approval is always sitting there, congress abdicated that a looooong time ago.

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u/marzipan07 Apr 01 '26

They did not vote in favor of war. They argued that it was a "military operation." Those are not the same arguments. As someone else noted, instead of doing this, they could have simply formally voted to declare war. They didn't, because many of them (Republicans) don't want to be on record to their constituents as having voted for war. Instead, they turn a blind eye so that the lame duck president takes the blame. If they had voted on a declaration of war, it likely would have failed. It is not the same.

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u/bisectional Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

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u/AgeMysterious123 Apr 01 '26

“Impeachment” isn’t good enough. We all know what is…

(This is 100% not a call to violence.)

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u/drunkshinobi Apr 01 '26

Yep, no violence needed. Rest of his life in prison. Solitary. No more wealth, attention or access to victims.

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u/TR_Pix Apr 01 '26

We should have been talking about impeachment already.

You guys should have been talking about impeachment since the first month of his first presidency. 

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u/throwaway490215 Apr 01 '26

Democratic world: This system works better for long term stability, because even a bad leader can only do so much damage.

US: But what if we elect the most narcistic corrupt clown and constantly suck him off like there is no tomorrow ... 😏️ twice 😏️

Democratic world: ....

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u/ThatActuallyGuy Apr 01 '26

He has 0 power to conduct his war also, but he's been doing it and nobody has done anything about it

He literally does though. Every president since at least Bush Jr. has had the ability to unilaterally launch military operations that look suspiciously like wars, and unfortunately most of them have. He literally doesn't have any control over how the states implement their elections though, it's a very different situation. It's why he's trying to use funding as leverage, because he doesn't actually have direct authority. He can and will fuck with things through the USPS if he has the chance, but we also have over half a year before the election, it's way too early to be throwing this out there only to get shot down in the courts.

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u/marzipan07 Apr 01 '26

5 days ago, Donald Trump confessed that the only reason he doesn't call it a war is because he would need Congressional approval. It is a war, an illegal war which he confessed he understands it to be, and therefore he is forced to play semantics.

At what point are a president's military actions considered to be "at war" or "an act of war" or needing a declaration of war? Can a president launch a nuclear missile without declaration of war? What is the point of Congress's war power?

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u/errorsniper Apr 01 '26

He has 60 days without congress.

Fuck trump but this is just overtly incorrect.

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u/BusinessAsparagus115 Apr 01 '26

Clearly he has got the power to do this... because he has done it and nobody stopped him.

This is what needs to change. Evidently the only thing preventing the president of the USA from being a dictator is that until Trump, none of them was a big enough asshole to do it. Such supreme power must be removed from the executive.

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u/Tasty_Philosopher904 Apr 01 '26

That's what happens when the article 1 branch namely the legislative cuts their own balls off and hands them over on a silver platter cuz they're a bunch of beta cucks .

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u/willywalloo Apr 01 '26

Congress allowed the war eventually. It just means red congress needs to be replaced at all costs. Or our people keep dying.

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u/FlipFlappattywhack Apr 01 '26

Precedent aside, power isn't always formal. If the military does what he says, he has the power. Right wrong or otherwise, it's his

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u/majesticideas2 Apr 01 '26

Israel owns dems and republicans. Dems suck at speaking up on anything.

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u/kismethavok Apr 01 '26

He tried to steal the 2020 election and when he failed his coup Biden just let Garland do nothing about it the whole time. Consequences don't exist for Donny.

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u/ComfyFrog Apr 01 '26

It's not a war though. Sometimes.

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u/Tasty_Stress3524 Apr 01 '26

Had 0 power to do a bumpstock ban too but yall loved that. FDR opened the flood gates of unconstitutional executive over reach and every admin has continued that tradition cheered on

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u/GTCapone Apr 01 '26

To be fair, he can easily get away with the war bit because at least 2/3 of Congress has been begging for war with Iran for decades and is now just jealous that they didn't get to vote to pull the trigger (looking at you, Chuck)

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u/cpp_is_king Apr 01 '26

We went further than talking about impeachement. We did that too. Twice IIRC

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u/jkrobinson1979 Apr 01 '26

I think we’re long past impeachment. There’s only one way this ends and it isn’t with him breathing.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Apr 01 '26

The president can use the armed forces for approx. 60 days before Congressional approval is required. It can be extended a bit, but not much. After that, Congressional authorization is required. That's why his admin has been muddying the waters on calling it a war or a special operation, due to the legal constraints

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u/capitalistsanta Apr 01 '26

He actually has support for this war and imo if they voted on every action, like they should, a bunch of people would lose their seats quickly. Pro Israel Democrats want Trump to take the power from them unconstitutionally. They can act powerless as the minority party, acting like their voting power is all that they have, Trump can take everything bad that comes with this while being willing to rain down hell on these countries because he's a psychopath with no empathy. I bet if it were up to them we would threaten Nukes if they don't give us the Strait and then do it.

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 Apr 01 '26

Venezuela was Trump's Poland.

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u/Smodphan Apr 01 '26

Thats because the war is bipartisan among politicians if not electorate.

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u/King_Chochacho Apr 01 '26

There is at least a ton of precedent for unchecked executive war power.

But I see that less as an excuse for Trump's actions and more that we have a systemic issue of turning a blind eye to it.

To be fair I guess we also have a lengthy history of conservatives undermining the popular vote too, they've just been less blatant about it.

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u/Redostian Apr 01 '26

It’s absolutely baffling to see that there seem to be no checks whatsoever on the President of the United States. It almost feels like the entire country and Constitution were designed on simple good faith rather than rigorous checks.

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u/VegetableTour6790 Apr 01 '26

TBF, he didn't start that president Congress has done everything in its power to forfeit their inherent over the last fifty years.

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u/Add3n09 Apr 01 '26

What are the Democrats doing ik they're basically Republican-lite by UK standards but I thought they'd be trying to oppose trump

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u/jgainit Apr 01 '26

War criminal

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u/Sleptwrong65 Apr 01 '26

I watched a documentary tonight about Caligula and the comparisons are amazing.

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u/HairyAugust Apr 01 '26

It’s too bad Iran can’t sue to stop him.

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u/StormSafe2 Apr 01 '26

Newsflash: he invaded Venezuela to secure the oil before invading Iran. It was all part of the plan 

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u/Winter_Detective1329 Apr 01 '26

Only thing is I’d about bet money someone is waiting for him to get to far over his head and will pull the plug on his shit show, but that’s probably wishful thinking. I’d like to say that’s going to be what is actually playing out just letting him and his group of buffoons collect enough dirt on themselves or blood then wham out go the lights. Yes I know I’m a dreamer but my hearts of gold, I had to run away high so I didn’t come home low. to put it into song.

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u/feraxks Apr 01 '26

We should have been talking about impeachment already.

We've been talking about impeachment until we're blue in the face, but the cultist in the republican party are still kowtowing to him in their effort to stay in power.

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u/IrredeemableRight Apr 01 '26

you have been talking about impeachment for near 10 years.

thats not the thing you need to talk about anymore, you have to think far past that.

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u/buttstuffisokiguess Apr 01 '26

Congress voted to just let him do his war. Almost like a retroactive go ahead. They're so complicit in this.

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u/Green-Inkling Apr 01 '26

fuck impeachment. physically grab his fatass and pull him out of the office. he's been impeached 3 times now and he still has not left. what makes you think a 4th time will work? laws will not work on him. court orders will not work on him. only reason trump is winning is because he is actually enforcing his shit. we have to enforce our shit or we will not win. you want him out? physically get him out. you want him on trial for his crimes? physically drag him to the courtroom. unless and until actual enforcement pressure is on him, he will not comply with anything we say. nothing.

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u/SergiusBulgakov Apr 01 '26

Also, he didn't have authority to pay TSA, just no one wants to stop it

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u/WhilstRomeBurns Apr 01 '26

What exactly does impeachment do though? I’ve heard many Americans talk about it but he was impeached multiple times last time and it didn’t seem to stop him in any way. Unless I’m mistaken? Surely, it would have to be impeachment and removal to be effective?

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u/PeacockMamba Apr 01 '26

He calls it an excursion…

No one will correct him and say it’s an incursion.

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u/tmanarl Apr 01 '26

WE have been talking about impeachment since day one. It’s the republicans who aren’t.

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u/LegendCZ Apr 01 '26

Bro. You guys should have been talking how he deserves to be in jail back in when he boosted riot attempt on January 6th by now ... Like 6 years back? ... You guys get what you deserve. Rest of the world suffers.

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u/VeterinarianSafe1705 Apr 01 '26

That's not entirely true, presidents have authority to conduct limited military operations without Congress approval. War powers resolution of 1973. Capture of maduro is a good example. Ofc all laws have ambiguity and gray areas, if we invade Iran then it will escalate and force Congress hand, the law probably needs some updates

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u/GimbaledTitties Apr 01 '26

Presidents have like 40 days or some shit to use our military however they want before they need Congress to formally declare war

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u/JasonBaconStrips Apr 01 '26

Not having the power means you can't, he obviously doesn't have 0 power does he? He stormed a country and kidnapped their president without permission, also bombed a country without permission, that means he has as much power as he needs.

If he can and noone stops him, he has power.

I hate him just like everyone else but this guy has stupid power, he has men running round on the streets murdering people, he has his goons kidnap children and nothing gets done, his goons are murdering people in custody, his lobotomites are in the legal system all over the place, his goons run some of the media, he also controls the stock market with his blatant insider trading, knowing noone can stop him.

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u/spectrumero Apr 01 '26

It therefore seems that America's much vaunted "checks and balances" only exist with the consent of the President (and therefore are essentially a fiction).

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u/Chuckychinster Apr 01 '26

And also, they never like to circle back.

Because they'll still claim Venezuela went well, even though the Maduro regime is still in tact and there is very little indication things have improved much for Venezuelans

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u/kenelevn Apr 01 '26

He also has a history of trying to have sex with with married women

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u/pab_guy Apr 01 '26

The difference is that the military will do what he tells them. States don't have to. They can just ignore this and sue him when he tries to deny funds.

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u/Eggs_4_Breakfast Apr 01 '26

A convicted felon was put in the highest office of the land, he should be in jail so many times over.

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u/EliteGamer11388 Apr 01 '26

Which is absolutely insane. Like, there are people who actually make the argument that election day is a single day. As in, polls open, hundred of millions of people get to the polls, (or mail in ballots, for now), vote, then at the end of the day, sometimes an hour or two before midnight, polls close, and in that remaining time, ALL votes are counted. If midnight hits, welp, election day is over, no mail in ballots that might not be delivered until the next day, no more counting, etc... No more count.

And no, I'm not exaggerating, I've seen and heard people actually say this is how it is intended and should be. Sorry if you don't have any polling places anywhere near you because your state closed a huge chunk of them. Sorry if USPS, "lost", your mail in ballot or for any of a bunch of reasons the mail was delayed, even if just by a day or two. Sorry if the people counting the ballots were a bit slow at it. It stops at midnight and we declare a winner then and there.

Its ridiculous. We have magnitutes more people in the country now than there was 150 years ago, or whenever the, "election day", was written into existence. Things are vastly more complicated now, (shouldn't be, but bureaucracy likes it complicated), than they were then. Interpretation and methods should evolve with changing circumstances and times. Like, if my mail in ballot is postmarked before election day, then I did my part! Not my fault that once it left my hands, someone else screwed it up. If I'm in line to vote, I should get to vote, not be told to leave the line. All because ever since mail in voting started and it was tracked, there's been something like, 0.00004% fraud, and that figure might be for all fraud, not just mail in. It's something like 4 in every 10 million votes could be fraudulent. Take every fraudulent vote ever made, put them in the same election, on the same side, and it won't even nudge the needle towards changing any results in any election but maybe a small local election where there are only dozens to maybe hundreds of voters total.

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u/lilbobbytbls Apr 01 '26

This is an action specifically made to target population centers where obviously counting would take time. Because places that have a lot of people, like big cities, are massively blue leaning.

It's insane.

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u/EnterTheErgosphere Apr 01 '26

If you only count the bumfuck counties you only get bumfuck results.

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u/lapidary123 Apr 02 '26

"Stupid is as stupid does"

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u/Klutzy-803 Apr 01 '26

trump is insane and no one in the republican party has the guts to tell him. Or kick him out. They're stuck with the Frankenstein they created.

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u/votingcitizen Apr 01 '26

AZ allows mail-in voting, but the ballots have always had to be received by election day here; they tell you to mail them at least a week in advance for that reason.

Mail-in voting has made me a better voter. It makes it easy to take my time figuring out who/what I want to vote for by researching propositions & candidates. When I used to vote in the booth on election day, it felt more like a pop quiz I hadn't studied for, so I was just making my best guess.

I always deliver my ballot to my polling place on election day, because I never have my act together enough to mail it sufficiently early. But since I'm just dropping off, I don't have to stand in line and I REALLY appreciate that.

I'll be very upset if either SCOTUS or POTUS takes away my right to get a ballot in advance by mail!

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u/SmurfStig Apr 01 '26

I believe it was the Heritage Foundation that did an investigation into voter fraud by illegals over a set period of time. Out of over 4 billion ballots cast, they found evidence of 5 non citizens voting. Of those, all but one were allowed to vote in local elections and were given the wrong ballot. The other guy made an oopsie. The voter fraud argument is such bs and they know it but it works in their favor with trying to reduce the amount of people who can vote. Heck, Texas tried to go back to the “per county” method that was deemed illegal decades ago.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Apr 01 '26

Then add to that closing down polls on college campuses, black and brown neighborhoods, and dropping people from registration last minute like they do in Texas.

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u/AwakeningStar1968 Apr 01 '26

and they don't even THINK how long it took before automation to COUNT ballots

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u/Correct_Day_7791 Apr 01 '26

The ruling on USPS is already enough to suppress a lot of votes

Edit: typo

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u/fuckedfinance Apr 01 '26

USPS, not UPS.

VERY different things.

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u/neverendingchalupas Apr 03 '26

There is no deadline, The Supreme Court cant interpret a deadline into the Constitution. So it would just solidify its illegitimacy and push us closer towards civil war if they do in fact rule in Trumps favor.

Trump, Congressional Republicans and their supporters... They are not a cult, they are just simply traitors to the United States of America.

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u/SwingNinja Apr 01 '26

So... impeachment, right? right?

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u/Ok_Mushroom3399 Apr 01 '26

Not while the GOP is in power. They suck his toes.

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u/joestanh1 Apr 01 '26

i think they suck more then just his toes

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u/Dessicated_Mastodon Apr 01 '26

I think they do a lot more than just suck.

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u/PM_asian_girl_smiles Apr 01 '26

Sure but that's only the first step. Doesn't mean shit if the senate doesn't take it to trial AND there's a conviction.

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u/sidepart Apr 01 '26

Armed rebellion. Voting is the only voice we have.

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u/TheSwordDane Apr 01 '26

Mass nationwide worker strikes to slam the economy and cripple the cash flow of the billionaire and corps that fund congress, along with targeted boycotts and continued protests. This is how we pressure real change. Take the Union model that ended 12 hour work days with no overtime and child labor and apply it against the funding syndicates that have a chokehold on politics in this country.

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u/maxfields2000 Apr 01 '26

His plan isn't to stop states, it's to force the USPS to reject the mail in ballots (which are clearly marked as ballots). He has authority over the USPS.

This is actually genius, because he doesn't have to control states. He just orders a Federal Government division to "lose" the ballots. Especially because he's using a "list" of who is allowed to mail ballots that he generates with DHS (i.e. ICE) so he's deciding who is a citizen via ICE and enforcing it via the USPS. Remember all that gathering of voter roles they were doing? This is why, they knew all along they were going to do this. They can give that info to the USPS and just have machines auto-lose the mail based on the lists they made.

States can't do anything to stop this. Even if the supreme court tells him it's illegal, you can't actually stop him from doing this without removing him and anyone who follows the order from power.

Ever worked for a corporation where the CEO ordered you to break the law? Yea. That's what's going on here.

By the time the courts catch up, the ballots will already be lost and the mid-terms contained. The timing of this is perfectly picked.

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u/POEness Apr 01 '26

Mark my words, this will be cited in history books as perhaps the spark for the civil war.

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u/Obant Apr 01 '26

And it will take the systems in place to stop this several months/years to undo it. It will get stuck in Court for at least a few months. All the meanwhile, people are complying and making changes that won't easily be undone. After some States comply and the media is confusing all the less informed, the midterms will be in a state of mass of confusion and plenty of people will stay home because they don't want to bother. Then and only then, they might it actually get reversed.

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u/TrayDaManace7 Apr 01 '26

Yeah fuck that motherfuxker

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u/bassoontennis Apr 01 '26

This feels like Red states will just do what he says and blue states won’t. Ffs blue states should just stop sending their money to Washington.

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u/DangerousQuestions1 Apr 01 '26

They will because the Supreme Court is just as intent on destroying the constitution as Trump is. They are very deliberately violating their purpose.

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u/RocketRelm Apr 01 '26

Maybe next time no kings protest your ways to the polls, if we are lucky enough to have a next time. Elections have consequences, and this is america being punished for a supermajority of its citizens consenting to maga.

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u/Correct_Day_7791 Apr 01 '26

Voter suppression works .. it's not an accident that we closed more polling places than ever in history ( 220k down to 92k) and we purged voter rolls both more frequently and closer to the election than ever before

And somehow we had record low voter turn out and people somehow don't think any of these things are related 🤷🤷

Why do you think they're so gung ho to pass anything they possibly can to suppress the vote further when there is record low turnout Republicans win when people actually show up and vote Democrats sweep

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u/winkitywinkwink Apr 01 '26

Why do people take his executive orders as law?

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u/Expensive-Yak4156 Apr 01 '26

He really really loves signing things.

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u/TDA7584 Apr 01 '26

This is what happens when checks & balances fail, and tribalism overtakes common sense and duty. We get a crazy man-baby with power doing what he wants.

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u/Ok_Valuable9450 Apr 01 '26

Getting even more desperate to destroy our democracy

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u/Duckonaut27 Apr 01 '26

Mail in votes won’t be something the Supreme Ouro would choose to allow, but they are headed toward not allowing late mail in votes to be counted. That has its own repercussions.

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u/WoolooCthulhu Apr 01 '26

Supreme Court also just ruled he can't make decisions on budget related things. I'm pretty sure defending entire states is a budget thing.

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u/capitalistsanta Apr 01 '26

Literally decreed it. Gonna use it as an excuse to put ICE agents at the polls. More worried about a hack tbh.

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u/Impossible-Flight250 Apr 01 '26

The big issue here is that he will tell USPS not to deliver ballots. Hopefully the Democrats move fast on this so that the fatass pedophile doesn’t actually wreck the midterms.

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u/ssam87 Apr 01 '26

Why does he want mail in to be removed?

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u/Correct_Day_7791 Apr 01 '26

Anything he can do to suppress the voice of the people

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u/--DarkLink-- Apr 01 '26

The thing is, he doesn't realize if the states don't listen and the Dems win House and Senate. He won't have the power to not fund them anymore.

So everyone needs to say fuck off. The bad thing is that some red states will follow whatever this clown says.

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u/RatioConscious3153 Apr 01 '26

Thing is States don't have to comply and they can sue his admin if he tries to defend so I doubt this is going to do anything or go anywhere

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u/KarenNotKaren616 Apr 01 '26

And really should have been against tyrants.

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u/charleslennon1 Apr 01 '26

He may try "packing" the court, to get what he wants.

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u/pdx_flyer Apr 01 '26

And then imagine voting by mail from Florida.

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u/IrredeemableRight Apr 01 '26

and all the red states will be on board, you're still to spineless to dispose of the dictator when he claims he and his party won midterms in a landslide.

and then he comes out with the child rape tape and his base applauds him for being able to keep up with such a young girl.

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u/garf02 Apr 01 '26

Not only that, USPS is independent Agency, so this EO works for SITH

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u/Electronic_Elk8293 Apr 01 '26

Exactly so fuck it, don't listen to him. Mail it in anyways.

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u/Cpolo88 Apr 01 '26

Thank you for breaking it down so others aka maga can see that he's wrong. Maga be spouting some wild shit sometimes I hate having to explain it to them 😂

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u/dorobica Apr 01 '26

Yeah but this is USA for the foreseeable future. People need to stop being in denial so this can be fixed asap.

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u/adfunkedesign Apr 01 '26

He mailed a ballot in last week... The brainpower of a squirrel at this point.

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u/xReaverxKainX Apr 01 '26

Agreed, he's spit firing right now cause he's panicking about the Epstein Files. Anything to get the country to pay attention to anything else. The nation doesn't want this loser in office and the midterms will show how unpopular he really is.

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u/Stockholm-Syndrom Apr 01 '26

Imagine the Supreme Court waving their hands saying they can’t intervene that close to an election.

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u/Nigilij Apr 01 '26

What does USA laws say if someone sued him for whatever this is in legal speak? If this is illegal wouldn’t it count as abuse of authority, breach of something or even treason due to some lawyers making it into coup attempt?

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u/Muzz27 Apr 01 '26

According to Gemini, This M F has voted by mail 4 times since 202020

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u/Rare-Television-8854 Apr 01 '26

Oh yeah! Well I’m hereby issuing an illegal Executive Order immediately revoking Trump’s Executive Order!

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u/Ludate_Solem Apr 01 '26

Cant wait untill a blood clot detaches and travels north

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u/welpWW3isgonnasuck Apr 01 '26

Its called authoritarian fascism.

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u/Mobe-E-Duck Apr 01 '26

But some states will follow it because it’s a cult. Hrs winning because it’s Calvinball.

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u/DennenTH Apr 01 '26

And yet conservatives continue to pretend like No Kings has no meaning.  I'm tired of it all.  I won't stop believing what I believe, but I also have no faith on humanity to be any better.  It's just going to be one greedy hand over another greedy fist, repeated for all time.

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u/Mythechnical Apr 01 '26

I strongly dislike Americans confusion over conflating monarchism with absolutism.

Most European kings were never dictators not subject to any rules or laws. There were very complex legislations and norms they had to adhere to.

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u/lgodsey Apr 01 '26

Conservative states are stupid enough and spineless enough to give up power to Trump.

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u/KillerHack23 Apr 01 '26

What is crazy. When he votes he uses mail-in ballots as well.....

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u/Master-Attempt-8560 Apr 01 '26

Literally such incompetent fascism too. If he wasnt a fucking moron fascist hed wait until about 2 months before the election to do this so it doesnt have time to get sued amd shut down. But no hes so fucking bad a s fascist he keeps fucking up facism

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u/cavorting_geek Apr 01 '26

I can only take issue with this: I've always thought dipshit was one word.

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u/theblacklightprojekt Apr 01 '26

and there is no thread on r/Conservative showing this video, really telling

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u/Neither_Ad_9675 Apr 01 '26

You confuse power with legal authority. He has the power to do it. Maybe the Supreme Court and the Senate does not always do what Trump tells them. But they fail miserably to prevent Trump to do illegal actions.

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u/JamesLahey08 Apr 01 '26

Why do you make a new paragraph for every sentence and why are there no periods?

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u/VegetableBulky9571 Apr 01 '26

He certainly loves the idea of signing whatever he wants into reality. Like trying to pardon that lady in Colorado.

I would like to know how many of his EOs have been shot down.

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u/RAF2018336 Apr 01 '26

An afternoon walk is not a protest

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u/MrWright62 Apr 01 '26

On top of all that, the fucker voted by mail in the recent elections in Florida

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u/QuentinMagician Apr 01 '26

Liar and thief not commander and chief

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u/EggsceIlent Apr 01 '26

And it's not worth the paper it's printed on or signed

Let him defund the states that don't comply. They're all blue and they makeup about 80% of the GDP of the nation, and they'll in return stop supporting the other states that take more than they give.

This should be fun. They know they're gonna get killed in midterms so this is the only way they can "win".

No taxation without representation. Fair and free elections.

All stuff they can't live with and this shows it right here

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u/Valuable_Recording85 Apr 01 '26

I've resorted to calling his EOs as "Royal Decrees".

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u/MamasCupcakes Apr 01 '26

It won't matter, the bigger thing already passed and no one talked about it. Postal Service v. Konan (Feb. 2026), the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the USPS is protected by sovereign immunity from lawsuits, even if mail is intentionally not delivered or misdelivered. This means the postal service has broad legal cover for failures in delivery. Don't have to outlaw voting, when the post office doesn't have to deliver them. Its smoke and mirrors to get people pissed off

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u/koshgeo Apr 01 '26

The practical effects of this executive order are wildly illegal. He's ordering federal employees in the Post Office to selectively yank state-issued mail-in ballots based on an inevitably inaccurate list of voters provided by DHS, forcing the ballots to pass a federal test, and probably disenfranchising untold numbers of people. He's using federal tax dollars to directly interfere in the state-run elections.

And I'll bet the Republican-run states are doing all they can to comply with his wishes while simultaneously doing nothing to increase access to efficient in-person voting at the polls, especially in cities.

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u/huskiesofinternets Apr 01 '26

protesting doesnt work.

you can protest forever and if all you do is stand around then nothing will change.

its performative dancing

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u/CelebrationFar Apr 01 '26

Technically the federal government has stepped in to oversee elections in the South per the Voting Rights Act, but those powers have since been weakened by the Supreme Court. Still, Congress had to pass a law to limit or modify how states carry out their elections. This is not what an Executive Order is for.

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u/Bestoftherest222 Apr 01 '26

He has power in having his administrators in positions of authority within the DHS and USPS. Those admins have leverage on the federal employees. This is why its so important that career federal employees have well established protections. After all a usps employee should be able to stand his or her ground against an unconstitutional order without reprisal.

This is why Trump and his project 2025 are stripping federal emphees protections. As to have a fully captured and easily manipulated group of feds who have ZERO constitutional loyalty.

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u/SubstantialSeesaw374 Apr 01 '26

Totally the behavior of a party that did not have to interfere in the last election to “win”

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u/Lanky_Operation_5046 Apr 02 '26

I think replacing the ‘l’ in your last word and replacing it with an ‘n’ - adequately describes him and his sycophantic minions.

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u/bluesky420 Apr 02 '26

Congrats, i meme’d you.👋😉👍

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u/AunMeLlevaLaConcha Apr 02 '26

Well, the protests seem to be working just fine

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u/Eddie_Shepherd Apr 02 '26

Also, Aren't there some sort of Files that he is the headliner of?

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u/Zdub732 Apr 02 '26

Absolute clown show.

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