Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Let Him Rig the Election in His Favor

WASHINGTON, DC — Donald Trump's Justice Department filed an emergency petition on Monday and asked the Supreme Court to let his administration decide which mail ballots get delivered this November, because two federal courts in this case have already told him no and he's decided the rules don't apply to him.

“Donald Trump has lost this fight in court twice, so now he's begging the Supreme Court to help him rig the election in his favor,” said Abhi Rahman, Try and Stop Us Spokesperson. “His administration is engaged in a whole-of-government, desperate effort to seize control of who gets to vote by mail and rig an election Republicans are otherwise likely to lose. It's plain as day that Trump is terrified of what happens when every eligible voter gets to cast a ballot, and he's throwing every lever he has to stop it. But in the end, voters will determine the outcome of this election, not a desperate unpopular president who only cares about himself.”

It's the latest move in a coordinated effort to put the White House in charge of who gets to vote.

The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to greenlight Trump's March executive order directing the Postal Service to withhold ballots from voters unless states hand over lists of who's “eligible,” the first time his DOJ has taken one of his anti-voting executive orders all the way to the nation's highest court.

A federal judge already found central parts of the order “legally void,” and a three-judge panel on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling Saturday, finding that pushing the order through before the midterms would confuse voters and put eligible Americans at risk of losing their vote entirely.

Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C. are suing to stop the order, and challengers have until August 3 to respond to Trump's request.