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Trump Loses It as Courts Block His Election Plan

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas and Talking Feds host Harry Litman report on Donald Trump’s Post Office plan collapses. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the Mei...

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not deliver mail from any states with people's mail in ballots unless the state provides

its voter rolls to Donald Trump and so that the United States Postal Service will just not deliver your mail. Now a federal judge rejected that and now what the Trump regime is saying is that they will suffer irreparable harm if a court of appeals does not stay a district court order blocking the United States Postal Service from refusing to deliver mail.

How do you know you're in a fascist regime when your postal service refuses to deliver your votes?

And when the postal service becomes a literal tool of the regime, that's how you know

that you're becoming a fascist regime, by the way, I also say, "How do you know?"

Even in North Korea, Kim Jong-un doesn't sign their currency, but yet Donald Trump's

now forcing his signature upon our $100 bills, but I digress. You take a look right here at this notice of appeal from the United States Postal Service, defendants here by appeal to the D.C. circuit from the District Courts Order and to company memorandum of opinion blocking them from not delivering your mail. So the U.S. Postal Service is now asking a circuit court to pause the lower courts order

and they're asking the District Court to also stay its order, pause it, because it doesn't want to deliver your mail in the filing that just took place this week. The Postal Service argued that unless the court grants a stay, the injunction will severely disrupt the postal service efforts to promulgate a final rule, fulfilling Trump's March

2026 order ahead of the November midterm elections.

Our irreparable harm as the postal service is that we can implement Donald Trump's unlawful executive order. That's our irreparable harm. What about the irreparable harm of people who participate in a democracy who want to vote, who want to vote by mail, because they're allowed to vote by mail? I just want you to think about the audacity, the sheer like WTF of what the federal government's doing and I'm not sure, you know, if this was even covered

on any corporate news, maybe briefly, maybe a footnote in some coverage, but like this is a big deal. So you have the postal service posting, it's proposed rule, making that it won't deliver your ballots. Then it was sued by the NAACP and others saying, yeah, this shouldn't be taking place. And then the NAACP and others won in the District Court. And now the USPS, the postal service is saying, we don't want to deliver people's mail. And

it goes on to contend that the NAACP is improperly splitting claims, because it filed a separate lawsuit. They don't have standing. We need citizenship lips from each state. And then they said that they suffer these irreparable harms before the election. And so I just want you to see like what efforts are actually being taken place behind the scenes to suppress your vote. Also, bring in Harry Litman and just mentioned this too. Drift,

you saw Trump has made a post that he wants his so-called Save America, which is his voter suppression law attached to the military budget. Then he goes back to war with the run, knowing that we'll need a military budget, which, by the way, he shouldn't get any of it. Attaches the Save America Act to that as well. And then says, well, you don't support our troops now, unless you pass the Save America Act, which is the voter

suppression act. And then refuses to sign a housing affordability law, Harry. And so, you know, there's so much that this Trump regime throws in our faces every day, weapon a mass distraction, Donald Trump's personal fraud, covering up child petal reigns, you know, the daily border patrol in ice, Gestapo, still killing people. And then you got something

This, Harry, which it's like rule making of the U.

weeds, but Harry, this means they don't want to deliver your ballot. That's what the U.S.

Postal Service is arguing. They should not deliver your mail.

What a hundred percent. Look, it is ruthless and indefatigable. They're efforts to mess with the election. And what's happening here, Ben, is there been a number of

courses that you can't do that? You can't do that. So they're fastening on to the second and third

level efforts to try to do the same thing with different legal strategies. First, thank you, thank you, thank you for zeroing in on a reprobable injury. We've talked about this. You and I have when it's come to the so-called emergency document, how really slap dash and inconsistent up to the U.S. Supreme Court, the higher courts have been about applying these four different factors that are supposed to be indispensable before you grant a stay or here, dissolve a stay and

one of them, yes, a reprobable injury. And again, what is the irreparable injury here if the department, if the post office has to deliver the mail, I get does every single day and it's a version of the same argument they make again and again. It's a bankrupt argument, but it's been accepted

up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is basically this, we're not going to be able to execute on this

order that the president has made. That goes without saying that's what actually it means to

shut something down because it's probably illegal and the bootstrapping involved there of, oh, terrible, irreparable injury. We can't do the maximum leaders' edict here. That's what it is. Okay, next point, the post office by charter is completely non-partisan politically and think if it were otherwise, you compared to authoritarian regimes where you control the mail and you look at it or decide who gets what. It's just a fundamental sort of ancillary point about

freedom of speech and freedom of information that they can't apply a political filter and that

executive order by Trump absolutely violates it and it's going to go down for that reason. We're just at the temporary provisional point, but they are now the U.S. post office. They must have the same sense of shame that many of the DOJ do. Now they've got to go in in support of this plainly, not just unconstitutional, as if that isn't enough, but order that completely pulls the rug out from what they know they're about. You know, you might as well just say we'll deliver

but only Republican mail and the like. Third, it's not simply that you have to be a political

as the post office. The federal government has no fucking authority here. They've tried it again and again, this would be up to the states. It's not, there is no, and if it did, we can go into this longer and you and I have. There's a modicum of authority in the Congress and there's all kinds of authority in the states. There's nothing. There's no hook. He can hang this unconstitutional order on in terms of legitimate executive branch authority. They don't have the role to play here,

but they can't handle that. So they're trying to go at it in many different ways. I'll just think there's two or three every day. Another thing we just found out about today, the head of the civil rights division, sends a letter to all the states saying that officials could be charged with a crime if there are people who are not eligible to vote who do. You know, it's sort of empty saber rattling. I guess you could, if you somehow purposely tried to subvert the law,

but it's just a way of trying to push and pull and cow and frightened the, you know, political officials because they haven't been able to make their will be locked as they have no legal basis. So it's just ways of trying to slap people around and scare them. We also found out today they say they're sending observers to the polls in Michigan. God knows why. Maybe we'll next see. I just want to point out that they're not allowed to separate federal law to use any kind of beyond it all

there. But this is just what happens when Trump, including the very good point you made about the

Save act, just wants this in any way he can, but they're on second, third, fo...

because the basic strategy happens not to be to comply with the constitutional scheme.

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