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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh just signaled that he's willing to throw out potentially millions of legitimate mail-in ballots to help Trump win.

As part of an awful decision blocking Wisconsin from counting mail-in ballots that were mailed on time but arrive after Election Day, Kavanaugh flatly stated that any ballot not counted on election night should not be counted at all.

That means it might already be too late right now for people to get their ballots in the mail and counted.

We know Donald Trump intentionally sabotaged the U.S. Postal Service by installing mega-donor Louis DeJoy as postmaster general. After DeJoy dismantled hundreds of sorting machines and eliminated overtime pay for postal workers, significant delays in mail delivery began occurring all over the country—and the worst delays have been in battleground states like Michigan and Wisconsin.

But now the GOP-packed Supreme Court is forcing states to throw out mail-in ballots that the U.S. Postal Service doesn't deliver in time, and not just in Wisconsin. Republicans are pushing lawsuits to stop late-arriving legal ballots from being counted in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and Kavanaugh's opinion yesterday suggests that the Court may force states to stop counting ballots everywhere if necessary to hand the election to Trump.

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