'Serious Legal Error': Justice Jackson Eviscerates Supreme Court Decision In Scathing Dissent

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The Supreme Court's conservative majority lifted a lower court injunction blocking parts of Trump's executive order on mail-in voting, which directs DHS to send citizenship lists to states and pushes new USPS rules on transmitting mail ballots. The panel did not rule on the order's legality; it simply found the 23 states plus D.C. who sued hadn't shown sufficient harm to have standing, reversing a district judge's finding of unconstitutional separation-of-powers violations.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented sharply, writing the ruling 'needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty' into the midterms and leaves states with no clear window to sue. Kagan and Sotomayor dissented separately. A second nationwide injunction on another provision remains in place, and further litigation over the underlying order is expected as the Postal Service rolls out new ballot-handling rules.

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A court that won't say whether a policy is legal but will make sure it takes effect anyway isn't neutral, it's just quiet about which side it's on. Telling states they lack standing while the clock runs out on their ability to sue is a procedural trick with a very substantive result. Jackson called it chaos; the majority called it Monday.

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