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Trump COMPLETELY REBUKED by Supreme Court ahead of ELECTIONS!!!

2026-07-06 Entertainment
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Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover the 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee, where Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion upholding Mississippi's law allowing mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted up to five days later. Barrett wrote: "The electorate's choice is made when voting is complete, not when ballots are received." Chief Justice Roberts and the three liberal justices joined her. The RNC, backed by the Trump administration's Solicitor General, argued that federal law requires ballots to be received by Election Day. Mississippi's lawyer responded that the government "sounded the anti-fraud theme" but couldn't produce "a single example of fraud from post-Election Day ballot receipt in this century." Trump called the ruling "a tremendous loss" and demanded Congress pass the SAVE Act. The decision preserves grace period laws in 14 states plus D.C. and protects late-arrival rules for military and overseas voters in 30 states. Brian and Shant note the objective fact: restricting mail voting disproportionately affects lower-income voters and voters of color. Mail voting fraud accounts for 0.000043% of all mail ballots cast. Barrett's conclusion: "The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose." Kabateck LLP: Call 1-844-74-CIVIL for a free case evaluation or visit us at https://www.kbklawyers.com/ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920

Top Comments (10)

@michaelareilly6485 2026-07-06

The law doesn’t give the voter four or five days, it gives the USPS four or five days!

71 3 replies
@Islandgal4658 2026-07-06

We’re going to have to keep our eyes open but this is good news!

67 3 replies
@henrurust2025 2026-07-06

Voter verification happens during vote registration. If you make it through voter registration then you are good to vote with no further challenges.

56 3 replies
@MyButtercup 2026-07-06

He cannot change mail in ballots. 😮

52 4 replies
@teri3998 2026-07-06

Attn: Voters by Mail : Try to get your by mail ballot filled out and back in the mail ASAP

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@TerriKnight-x3s 2026-07-06

No one is saving the SCOTUS either!!

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@HiveMindEyesWideOpen 2026-07-06

That's great news!

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@bretttucker1146 2026-07-06

Trump doesn’t want to throw out all mail in ballots. Just the blue ones.

27 3 replies
@Carey4086 2026-07-06

Thank you for reporting this!

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@alcoolbc 2026-07-06

Only a criminal blocks legal voting in a democracy. Figure it out.

14 2 replies

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