To begin with, Trump cannot legally cancel the November 3 midterms.
Article I hands control of elections to the states and Congress, not the president, and roughly 235 years of constitutional structure haven’t budged that.
Including before judges he appointed.
On June 25, a federal judge in Boston, Indira Talwani, blocked the core of his executive order trying to weaponize the Postal Service against mail-in voting, ruling flatly that Trump’s directives to the Postal Service and Homeland Security exceed his authority under a Constitution that gives state legislatures and Congress — not the president — the power to set the rules for federal elections.
Days later, a second judge in Washington, D.C., Emmet Sullivan, ruled that the administration’s new mail rules violate a December 2021 settlement agreement requiring the Postal Service to prioritize monitoring and timely delivery of election mail through the 2028 elections.
He’s appealing.
He’s still losing.
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He’s tried fake fraud claims.
He’s tried strangling mail-in voting.
And he’s tried demanding the private data — Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers — of nearly every registered voter in America.
Since May 2025, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from at least 44 states and the District of Columbia, and 31 of those states have refused to hand over anything at all.
Courts have already thrown out DOJ’s claims in states including California and Oregon — and, as of this summer, in nine other states besides, with the Sixth Circuit affirming one of those losses.
When the DOJ came for Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon’s voter files — first in June 2025, then again in August, then a third time — he refused every time, citing state privacy law.
When Attorney General Pam Bondi tried again in January, dressing the request up as an offer to help after a shooting, Simon’s response was blunt:
“The answer to Attorney General Bondi’s request is no.”
The case, United States v. Simon, is still in court.
It was the Illinois fight that reached the justices first: in a 6-3 order on December 23, Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, concurred with Roberts and the Court’s three liberal justices in refusing to lift the block on deployment, while Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissented — Kavanaugh on narrower grounds than the majority, but joining the outcome nonetheless.
The appeals court below had already put it plainly:
“Political opposition is not rebellion.”
A federal judge in Oregon, Karin Immergut — also a Trump appointee — had called his rationale
“simply untethered to the facts.”
By New Year’s Eve, Trump was pulling troops out of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland — while promising he’d be back “in a much different and stronger form.”
The threat is real.
The power to pull it off won’t be there.
The courts are holding.
The Constitution is holding.
Clever fellas.
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