President Trump’s Solicitor General just put the Supreme Court on the clock. If the justices do not act this week, thousands of unsecured mail-in ballots will already be in the postal system, and there will be no way to pull them back.
In an emergency stay application filed over the weekend in United States Postal Service v. California (No. 26A305), Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Court the window is slamming shut.
“Ballots have already begun to be mailed in North Carolina, and more States will begin the mailing process as the injunction remains in place—including Alabama on September 9 and at least five States the week of September 13,” Sauer wrote. “Once those ballot envelopes enter the mailstream, there is no retrieving them.”
North Carolina started sending absentee ballots last Friday. Alabama is scheduled to start Wednesday. A cluster of additional states, including several that matter in November, begin the week of September 13.
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