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Josh Kaul on SCOTUS Decision
Wisconsin’s attorney general is downplaying the ruling from the US Supreme Court on President Trump’s mail-in ballot ruling.
A-G Josh Kaul on Monday said he doesn’t expect the Post Office and the Department of Homeland Security to actually be able to hold mail-in ballots in states like Wisconsin.
"These rules that the Trump administration is talking about will not ultimately go into effect," Kaul said.
The high court on Monday ruled that President Trump can finishing crafting a rule that he hopes will stop ballots from non-citizens from being counted.
But the court did not rule on the idea at the heart of the rule.
"[The president’s order] directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take appropriate action to create and distribute State Citizenship Lists. This provision is an internal directive from the President to a subordinate. It imposes no obligations on the States, so they ‘suffer no concrete harm from’ it, and without concrete harm, there is no standing," the court wrote.
The justices made a point of saying their ruling deals only with “standing,” and not “the merits” of the president’s order.
Kaul said that is a distinction that matters.
"They've left open the substantive question of whether what the federal government is trying to do is unlawful," Kaul added.
President Trump has pushed for states to clean-up their mail-in voting systems, and has turned to his executive order after states like Wisconsin refused to make any changes.
“ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS,” the president wrote on Truth Social last week. “I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS.”
Kaul did not say when he expects a lawsuit over the final mail-in ballot order, but a lawsuit is almost certainly going to be filed once that order is finalized.
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