Trump REELS as His LAST HOPE Comes CRASHING DOWN!!!

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Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down the third court loss in about a week for the Trump administration's effort to rewrite mail-voting rules through the U.S. Postal Service, this time from Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, D.C. — a Trump appointee — who found the administration has no statutory authority to force USPS to withhold ballots based on a citizenship database. Brian and Shant trace the timeline: Trump's March 31, 2026 executive order directed USPS to build new mail-ballot rules; Judge Nichols initially dismissed a challenge in May as premature because the final rule didn't exist yet; but once USPS published its final rule in August, and with ballots already in voters' hands in states like Alabama, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, Nichols found the dispute was no longer premature and blocked it, ruling narrowly that the rule "exceed[s] any conception of the outer bounds" of USPS's authority under the Postal Reorganization Act. Brian and Shant note this follows