# Risks of USPS Manipulation by the Trump Admin - 2026 and forward **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [June 7, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708 "2026-06-07T02:37:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/21 "2026-06-15T17:03:51Z")
Very unconstitutional. The states should threaten to sue any postal workers that don’t deliver mail. That is their duty. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/22 "2026-06-15T17:15:09Z")
To sue the Federal Government? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/23 "2026-06-15T17:22:12Z")
If a USPS employee is not delivering mail, isn’t that reason enough to just fire them? Let them play the Trump card and they can then sue the USPS because they themselves (the employee) did not adhear to their contract when they where hired. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/24 "2026-06-15T17:24:26Z")
The U.S. Postal Service is not a state-controlled entity, is it? Can the state fire postal workers? Can the state sue the Feds at all about this? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/25 "2026-06-15T17:25:13Z")
The people who are paying the price for this move are the voters. Any citizen affected by this executive order should be able to sue for an injunction, I would think. I cannot imagine the State of Oregon or others such as Colorado, where vote-by-mail is embedded in our system, is going to let this go unchallenged. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/26 "2026-06-15T17:28:02Z")
And the Feddies will just say that the only ones holding up your mail is the states, and that you should just sue _them_. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/27 "2026-06-15T17:30:12Z")
I don’t see how they could do that. The states are responding to an executive order. That’s federal. ETA: Alternatively, the states could just ignore the executive order. And wait to see what Trump does about it. I just received an invitation to RSVP to a Common Cause meeting to address this issue. I’ll be interested to learn what their approach is going to be. They’ve had good success suing this administration up to now. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/28 "2026-06-15T18:22:10Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > ETA: Alternatively, the states could just ignore the executive order. And wait to see what Trump does about it. So the typical response from Trump. I’m gonna make this such a tangled mess you will never do it again. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/29 "2026-06-16T18:19:50Z")
> **[Experts alarmed as Trump launches broad-front attack on US voting rights](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/trump-voting-rights-elections)** > > With election denialists installed in key positions, officials using series of measures to change voting rules > The Trump administration is waging war on voting rights using justice department lawsuits, FBI investigations, and an executive order to limit voting by mail, moves mirroring the US president’s false claims he lost the 2020 election due to voting fraud, say election experts and ex-officials. > > Since Donald Trump began his second term, numerous 2020 election denialists have been installed in key agencies such as the DoJ, the FBI and elsewhere to pursue widely discredited claims of fraud, which can intimidate election workers and voters in swing states that Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020. > > The justice department has also filed lawsuits seeking sensitive voter data from 30 states – even though, by law, states control elections – and the FBI has launched investigations into debunked allegations of voting fraud in Georgia, Wisconsin and a few other swing states that Trump lost in 2020. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/30 "2026-09-15T00:23:38Z")
And the ruling is in from SCOTUS - Trump’s mail voting plan cannot be allowed. BOOM! Although the decision was unsigned it appears to have been 7-2 against allowing the Postal Service plan from going forward. [Here is a free gift link to the NYT reporting.](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/14/us/supreme-court-mail-voting-trump?unlocked_article_code=1.BVE.y2Os.gSZKWnYTm8Tc&smid=url-share) Think of all the poor ketchup bottles being flung at the walls. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/31 "2026-09-15T00:28:12Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > And the ruling is in from SCOTUS - Trump’s mail voting plan cannot be allowed. BOOM! Not only foolish, but unworkable. Basically just a MAGA idea to end vote by mail. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/32 "2026-09-15T00:45:54Z")
Seriously, what would it take for Alito and Thomas to rule against the administration? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/33 "2026-09-15T00:51:14Z")
They’re having the time of their lives. Nothing will deter them from enabling Trump every chance they get. As for the others (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett and Roberts), they are canny enough to realize that chilling mail-in voting will have as much detrimental effect on Republican voters as Democrats. They rule reliably for Project 2025 when it advances that cause, which inhibiting mail in voting does not. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/34 "2026-09-15T01:00:58Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > As for the others (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett and Roberts), they are canny enough to realize that chilling mail-in voting will have as much detrimental effect on Republican voters as Democrats. Maybe yes, maybe no. (Personally, I think that chilling mail order voting hurts Democrats more, while requiring voter ID would hurt Republicans more.) The way I read the Kavanaugh concurrence, he would vote in favor of the Trump plan for 2028. .His only concern seems to have been the administration’s last minute timing. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/35 "2026-09-15T01:02:45Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > As for the others (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett and Roberts), they are canny enough to realize that chilling mail-in voting will have as much detrimental effect on Republican voters as Democrats. Here in WA, at least, the new postmarking rules are hurting rural (read: magachud) voters a lot more than they are urban voters, because it takes longer for their mail to get processed. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > Seriously, what would it take for Alito and Thomas to rule against the administration? A mean Truth Social post about Harlan Crow? ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/36 "2026-09-15T01:11:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Here in WA, at least, the new postmarking rules are hurting rural (read: magachud) voters a lot more than they are urban voters, because it takes longer for their mail to get processed. Is this just on the basis of speculation that the post office would ship everything to Seattle, etc., or were there actual firm plans? And even if such a plan was leaked, won’t the GOP in Washington have it changed? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/37 "2026-09-15T01:34:14Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Here is a free gift link to the NYT reporting. Did not work for me, unless I just got it wrong But here is NPR- [https://www.npr.org/2026/09/14/nx-s1-5962190/supreme-court-mail-in-voting-trump](https://www.npr.org/2026/09/14/nx-s1-5962190/supreme-court-mail-in-voting-trump) > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Maybe yes, maybe no. (Personally, I think that chilling mail order voting hurts Democrats more, while requiring voter ID would hurt Republicans more.) Gorsuch seems to be old school conservative, not MAGA. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/38 "2026-09-15T01:35:04Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > And even if such a plan was leaked, won’t the GOP in Washington have it changed? Elections are handled by the states, not the federal government. GOP in _Washington_ could do nothing, legally. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/39 "2026-09-15T01:54:51Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Elections are handled by the states, not the federal government. GOP in _Washington_ could do nothing, legally. Sorry for the ambiguity. I was thinking the GOP in Washington State could complain to the Postal Service if they planned to ship ballots from rural counties to urban ones. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708/40 "2026-09-15T01:59:58Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Sorry for the ambiguity. I was thinking the GOP in Washington State could complain to the Postal Service if they planned to ship ballots from rural counties to urban ones. If it’s the way it has always been done, they wouldn’t have much of a leg to stand on with their complaints. I don’t know enough about how Washington handles mail-in ballots to comment, but I wouldn’t expect them to get far. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/risks-of-usps-manipulation-by-the-trump-admin-2026-and-forward/1030708.md?page=3)