The U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and President Donald Trump late Friday appealed a federal judge’s ruling suspending service changes and requiring aggressive steps to ensure ballot deliveries ahead of the November presidential election, the Justice Department said.
The government said it was appealing U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan’s preliminary injunction orders issued in late September in a pair of legal challenges. Sullivan directed the USPS to take “extraordinary measures” to ensure that millions of ballots were delivered by mail and held numerous hearings on the status of ballots.
It is not immediately clear what impact the appeal would have at this late stage, given that the final deadlines for accepting ballots by mail for the Nov. 6 election had passed. Joe Biden has been declared the president-elect by Reuters and numerous other news organizations.
The White House, Justice Department and USPS did not immediately comment late Friday.
Sullivan also ordered twice-daily sweeps at USPS facilities serving states with extended ballot receipt deadlines.
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The Department of Justice, he said, in response to a leading question by Bartiromo, is “missing in action.”
He also charged news media and social media companies with ignoring what he said was the worst political scandal in American history, and alleged, again with no evidence, that ballots were requested in the names of dead people, and that “many mailmen are in trouble for selling ballots.” He accused two leading Republicans in Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, of failing to properly administer the election. “I’m sorry I endorsed him,” Trump said of Kemp.
Just another attempt by Das Fat Dildo to have himself appointed dictator. He just can’t stand being a loser. can’t live with the fact over 80 million citizens want him gone! why doesn’t he try U.S. Bankruptcy Court where he is an expert? I expect our ” great” leader to give a pardon to Bernie Madoff so they can become business partners. He should just leave Americans alone.