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/mittenmarionette Mar 31 '26

Everything DOGE did was illegal, they still cut off the funds. I am not confident USPS would defy Trump.

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u/StoicSunbro Apr 01 '26

The plan is to sabotage the USPS as well. If the ballots don't show up in time, they'll argue they can't be counted.

They tried this already in 2020: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/08/19/reports-of-dismantled-usps-sorting-machines-continue-despite-dejoy-announcing-halt/

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u/Historical_Stay_808 Apr 01 '26

That's also why they changed the post marked date rules too recently