A legal expert shared a sobering prediction on Sunday as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on one of President Donald Trump's most recent appeals.
Last week, the Trump administration sought to prevent a lower court from enjoining its new rules prohibiting the Postal Service from creating a national voter database and only sending mail-in ballots to people on that list. The Supreme Court may rule on that appeal this week from the shadow docket, argued Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor, in a new Substack essay.
"This is going to be a key moment," she wrote.
Trump filed the appeal less than 100 days before the midterm elections, which Vance argued means he is growing increasingly concerned about losing power.
"However the Court rules, the fact that we are even here is the ultimate criticism of this administration," Vance wrote. "Under the Constitution, the choice of elected officials belongs to the people. Donald Trump is deathly afraid of what that means."
"Efforts to circumvent the vote are inherently undemocratic and this shouldn’t be treated like just another routine court case," she added. "The EO is not business as usual, and we should not treat it as though it is. It is a maneuver designed to wrest control from the people and place it in the hands of Trump and the privileged few powerful conservatives and wealthy oligarchs who have slid into (or written checks into) his favor, in hopes of controlling our future."
