Sen. Mike Lee on Supreme Court intervention
Sen. Mike Lee is telling President Trump to invoke certiorari before judgment at the SUPREME COURT. The goal is to rapidly push a SCOTUS ruling on an activist judge's block against executive order-imposed Postal Service mail-in ballot integrity rules. Under these USPS' mail-in rules, states get a list turned over if they want a ballot sent, and ballots require barcode tracking. Sen. Mike Lee suggested seeking 'certiorari before judgment' to get this case in front of SCOTUS immediately because the current timeline might take too long to matter for the midterms. The author claims those blocking the rules are running out the clock.
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Mr. President, one way or another, we have to get this done. The American people are asking us to act. The President has asked us to act. The only thing standing in the way of this bill passing is the Senate. And it's specifically our slavish devotion to the zombie filibuster. But really, our slavish devotion to the zombie filibuster is not about the zombie filibuster or any kind of filibuster at all. It's slavish devotion to the truncated, predictable, light-duty legislative workweek. It is that, coupled with the cloture standard, that has created the modern zombie filibuster mess in which our Democrat colleagues were able to keep the Department of Homeland Security at least partially defunded for months and months out of every year. And now they're wanting to use the same trick to make sure that our elections are not secure. Shame on them. Shame on all of them. Shame on anyone who is trying to do that. And for that matter, Mr. President, now that it's become abundantly clear and that we've
