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While the latest Supreme Court decision regarding President Donald Trump\u2019s attack on mail-in voting doesn\u2019t quite mean a death knell for mailed ballots, a \u201ctwisted\u201d version of a little-known legal principle could hand him the midterm chaos he\u2019s looking for. This is according to attorney Jay Kuo, who has been admitted before the country\u2019s highest courts, and who warns that Trump and his allies on the Supreme Court may be running out of time \u2014 but that being short on time is part of their plan. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWere you to only read the headlines and the hot takes, you might conclude that mail-in balloting is toast and the midterms right along with it,\u201d writes Kuo<\/u>. \u201cAfter all, Trump took direct aim at mail-in voting in a completely illegal executive order, and earlier this week the Supreme Court greenlit his sabotage. To top things off, yesterday the federal judge in Boston overseeing these cases bowed to the High Court\u2019s reasoning and lifted the other court order, the one thing keeping the White House and the Postal Service from proceeding with their plan to police mail-in ballots.\u201d But these rulings haven\u2019t actually resulted in the implementation of Trump\u2019s order. According to Kuo, \u201cDespite procedural setbacks, the merits of Trump\u2019s order have not been ruled upon by a higher court, meaning no one has actually won this fight yet.\u201d In fact, notes Kuo, nobody even seems to deny the unconstitutionality of Trump\u2019s effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice Jackson\u2019s from the SCOTUS emergency docket ruling this week drove this point home,\u201d writes Kuo. \u201cShe noted that \u2018the Government has not even bothered to assert, much less demonstrate, that the President has the constitutional authority to issue an order that directs the manner in which the mail-in ballot aspect of federal elections is to be administered.\u2019 Legal writer Chris Geidner, covering the Court\u2019s ruling in his newsletter, noted<\/u> that the dissents pointed to language the majority opinion itself included in its brief, unsigned opinion: Nobody, including the government, was arguing the order is actually constitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the risk that Trump will be handed control over mail-in voting isn\u2019t in that the Supreme Court might rule it constitutional. According to Kuo, \u201cThe most serious threat comes from a Court that remains highly selective about when it does \u2014 and does not \u2014 get involved in election matters. Federal courts are supposed to uphold a longstanding practice of avoiding last-minute changes to how elections are run. The concern is that changing the rules close to an election creates confusion for voters. It\u2019s called the \u2018Purcell principle\u2019 after a 2006 case.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe same Supreme Court majority that just ruled for the administration on procedural grounds could decline to block the Postal Service rule, even while agreeing the rule is illegal, simply by throwing up its hands and saying Election Day is too close for a court to jump in,\u201d warns Kuo. \u201cIt\u2019s a twisted version of Purcell that actually permits the very kind of chaos the case is supposed to prevent.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the Court\u2019s own recent history suggests the \u201cdanger\u201d is real. As Kuo explains, \u201cIt repeatedly changed election rules using its own emergency docket in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama this term, very late in election cycles, when doing so favored Republican interests. Purcell seems to disappear as a consideration when it suits the majority, staying the hands of courts instead of mapmakers or federal officials precisely when injunctions are most needed to prevent electoral chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

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