The US Supreme Court ruled that federal law permits mail-in ballots to arrive after Election Day in a decision that preserves grace periods in 30 states. Mick Mulvaney, Former-Acting WH Chief of Staff (Trump's First Term), Co-Founder of the Freedom Caucus, Former-OMB Director joins Balance of Power to discuss the latest news from the Supreme Court as well as the latest from Congress. (Source: Bloomberg)
President Donald Trump compared the rise of socialism to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Trump was asked about the possible rise of more socialist candidates after three candidates New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed last week won their Democratic primary elections. “It’s a big threat to our nation, actually, because it’s not socialism, it’s […]
The decision rebuffs the Republican National Committee’s efforts to end grace periods for some late-arriving votes that were postmarked by Election Day.
The ruling “promises to unleash only chaos,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a dissent to the court's majority opinion.
The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a loss on Monday in siding against his party on voting, refusing to overturn state laws that allow mail ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. But they might simultaneously have given Trump the tools to punch a hole in the right to vote by mail anyway.That's because they also released their long-awaited decision in Trump v. Slaughter, overturning nearly a century of precedent to determine the president can fire members of independent agencies without cause.According to White House correspondent Jacob Bogage, one of the many federal entities that could be impacted by Trump's newfound powers to clean house would be one with critical implications for mail-in ballots — effectively giving him a bunch of the control he was hoping to get out of the ruling that didn't go his way."This also has big potential mail-in voting consequences," he wrote. "It could empower the president to fire members of the USPS board of governors, the group that selects the postmaster general and overseas the U.S. mail system."This comes as the current postmaster general, David Steiner, is already going all-in on a controversial Trump executive order that would direct the Postal Service not to deliver mail ballots at all in states that don't hand over sensitive information about voter practices to the federal government.A federal judge in Boston has already moved to block the enforcement of that executive order, but litigation is certain to continue in the case.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that state laws allowing ballots to arrive after Election Day are legal. The decision is the latest in a series of setbacks for President Trump’s efforts to regulate elections.
Lisa Cook, the first Black woman on the Fed board, sued Trump after he alleged she misrepresented mortgage information and moved to fire her.
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. June 28-29th 1776 Two of the most breathtaking, high-stakes days of the […]
Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin criticized his former political party for embracing socialist ideology, as the Democratic Party leans into more far-left candidates following progressives’ primary wins in New York and across the country. When discussing the recent primary wins by left-wing candidates, Manchin was asked about a Gallup poll showing that 66% of […]