See Trump's third Supreme Court bid in 6 weeks to let USPS restrict mail ballots already in transit, plus an armed man rushing Amy Acton at an Ohio fair.

Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to let the Post Office refuse to deliver or return ballots that were already in the mail.

North Carolina started mailing ballots on Friday. A federal judge blocked the Postal Service rule the same day because no state can comply with it in time. It requires every state to redesign its ballot envelopes, get the new design approved, and upload each voter’s name and address to a federal portal a whistleblower says was never tested. Alabama mails on Tuesday. At least 5 more states follow next week.

Trump’s own lawyers told the Court that once those envelopes enter the mail stream, there is no retrieving them. He has spent a decade claiming without proof that American elections are rigged. Now he is the one changing the rules after the voting started. The Constitution assigns the time, place and manner of elections to the states and to Congress, never to a president.

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I support anybody with an ‘R’ behind their name. I hope when all of this comes out that it’s not true. But at the end of the day, we’ve got to let the process play out.

Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) about Rep. Miller (R-OH), accused of abuse by his ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend, including breaking his 2-year-old daughter’s collarbone