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Trump is trying to prevent people from voting in Pennsylvania

There are issues over “naked” ballots that don’t have an envelope inside the mailing envelope and how long mail ballots will be accepted. This will wind up in courts just like Republican voter suppression efforts in other states.

Pennsylvania Republicans plan to appeal mail ballot deadline ruling to U.S. Supreme Court https://t.co/l8STYB4tMU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 23, 2020

🚨UPDATE: Last night the Pennsylvania Federal Court DISMISSED GOP naked ballots and third-party ballot delivery claims. Court also ruled that it will continue to ABSTAIN from ballot drop-box site claims and notice requirements. More here re next steps👇https://t.co/xHdwqx0X0B
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 23, 2020

They're called 'naked ballots'. Tonight, there's concern they could disenfranchise 100,000 Pennsylvania voters. In 2016, the state was decided by 44,000 votes.

Key reminder: Ballot goes into secrecy envelope, both go into outer, declaration envelope.https://t.co/cPLTbu2tWd pic.twitter.com/Zk5jNbFAsb
— David Kaplan (@DKaplanWTAE) September 22, 2020

Calling all billionaires with a belief in democracy!@chrislhayes explains how “naked ballots” could cost Joe Biden the Pennsylvania vote and why an educational campaign is more important than ever. pic.twitter.com/xfnFO21s0D
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) September 23, 2020

Look, regardless of the outcome, 80-100k or more PA ballots being tossed out on a technicality is a foreseeable train wreck. Perhaps more national news outlets should be picking this up? https://t.co/wX65ghFUgP
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 22, 2020

In a letter to GOP state leg leaders, an election official warns 100K PA voters could be disenfranchised b/c of a ruling rejecting naked ballots. It "set PA up to be the subject of significant post-election legal controversy, the likes of which we have not seen since FL in 2000." pic.twitter.com/3ml96W00EX
— Holly Otterbein (@hollyotterbein) September 21, 2020

A few people brushed off my PA "naked ballots" scenario the other day as "concern trolling." In reality, it's a very serious issue.

Here is the *chairwoman of Philadelphia's city commissioners* warning that 30,000-40,000 mail ballots could be invalidated in Philadelphia ALONE. https://t.co/Wr0YCnBW1C
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 21, 2020

Just heard from a reporter in western PA who's about to uncover yet *another* county where the naked ballot rate was ~5% in June. This appears to be the norm, not the exception.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 22, 2020

“The state Supreme Court in PA, a critical battleground state that’s seen as increasingly likely to determine who wins the White House, last week ordered officials to throw out ‘naked ballots’ — mail ballots that arrive w/o inner ‘secrecy envelopes.’” 1/ https://t.co/vvEJCIft8g
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 (@jennycohn1) September 22, 2020

"Naked" ballot rules put thousands of Pennsylvania mail-in votes at risk, Philadelphia official warns https://t.co/fLJ9IkRsMo pic.twitter.com/SwfJfXyVlV
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 22, 2020

Trump’s bigotry

He’s a racist and anti-Semitic. I have no idea how Jews can vote for Trump after the “very fine people” comments about Charlottesville neo-Nazis. He also says that Israel is our country. Not true. I am an American.

I don’t have a clever tweet. I’m just disgusted and offended, and Jews should take note. “After phone calls with Jewish lawmakers, Trump has muttered that Jews “are only in it for themselves” and “stick together” in an ethnic allegiance..” https://t.co/5yH5lBXNzZ
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) September 23, 2020

President Trump turns Rosh Hashanah call into campaign pitch and tells Jewish leaders "we love your country" https://t.co/wmpb5YMihO
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 17, 2020

Covers: My Baby Thinks He’s a Train

“My Baby Thinks He’s a Train” was written by Leroy Preston and recorded by Rosanne Cash on her excellent album Seven Year Ache in 1981.

Covers: Hometown Blues (Tom Petty song)

Tom Petty wrote it and recorded it in 1976. Rosanne Cash covered it on her outstanding album Seven Year Ache in 1981.

Polls show public opposes Trump nominating Ginsburg’s replacement now.

The margin varies but all polls I have seen have more people opposed to having Trump nominating someone now. Of course, that won’t stop Trump and McConnell. Public opinion supported having hearings on Garland. Public opinion supported having witnesses at the Senate impeachment hearing. Republicans did neither one and they won’t care about public opinion now. They only care about power.

The Economist/YouGov, however, find that 41% of adults think Trump should nominate someone while 46% think he should leave the seat vacant until inauguration day. https://t.co/G1bxhtUomE
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) September 23, 2020

🚨 New 🚨 Supreme Court polling:

53% – 39% Don't fill before election
51% – 39% Don't fill in lame duck if Biden wins
40% – 39% Expand Court if Trump fills

Democrats more likely to say Supreme Court increases their motivation. https://t.co/IgEgoLZD4U
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) September 21, 2020

Pretty consistent stuff here. Most voters in the polls taken after Friday have said wait on the Supreme Court pick… https://t.co/bdr8E7bRiv
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) September 21, 2020

More voters think the winner of November's election should appoint a new justice to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with a double-digit advantage over those who say President Trump should nominate someone before the electionhttps://t.co/JC1iGEFZHi
— POLITICO (@politico) September 21, 2020

If voters prefer waiting until after the election by a 13-point margin *and* D's are more fired up about the Supreme Court, this starts to look like a challenging issue for Republicans. Which is not to say they won't confirm someone, just that it could come at an electoral price. https://t.co/wsbllBsEgn
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 21, 2020

Trump aides feared his cult would cheer the passing of Ginsburg

Even his staff understands they have created a monster. This country will never be unified.

When news broke that Ginsburg had died, Trump was just five minutes into a campaign rally. Aides opted not to pass word to him onstage. If he announced the death of the liberal justice from the lectern, they feared the crowd would cheer. ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ https://t.co/pgUdOFBIel
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 23, 2020

Trump’s aides decided not to alert him of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death while he was onstage at a Minnesota rally because they feared that his crowd would cheer about her passinghttps://t.co/MhGH4zkBnf
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 23, 2020

Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums

Our list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003. But no list is definitive, so we decided to remake it from scratch. The voters included Beyoncé, Stevie Nicks and many more. Here we present our new #RS500Albums: https://t.co/nv9ePSZ6Pg pic.twitter.com/smVdTSCrLL
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 22, 2020

The election will be a fiasco

Neither side will accept a loss.

Democrats will blame voter suppression, foreign interference and whatever Barr/courts/Republican legislatures do.

Republicans will blame illegal votes and mail in vote fraud.

There’s no limit to what Republicans will do to steal the election.

The Trump campaign is discussing plans to ask state representatives to set aside the election results in their state and select Trump electors *even if Trump loses the vote in their state.*

That would be the death of American democracy. That is not an overstatement. It’s a fact. https://t.co/U28TTML396
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 23, 2020

I wonder how many people are ready for just how bad the next six weeks plus are going to be. This is going to be the most dangerous election since 1860, with substantial odds that America as we know it will be damaged or even destroyed 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 23, 2020

Ginsburg vacancy making Wall Street nervous that Trump vs. Biden will yield an 'illegitimate' result https://t.co/bEHQrDbaiu by @TeflonGeek pic.twitter.com/l5WwPmam5A
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) September 23, 2020

VISION 2020: Even if the election is messy and contested in court, the country will have a president on Inauguration Day. The Constitution and federal law ensure it.

READ MORE: https://t.co/ruqrsdNJwJ pic.twitter.com/AZs79lLOzU
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) September 16, 2020

Mueller failed to fully investigate Trump

He also didn’t do anywhere near enough after Barr lied about the report.

This is an indictment of Mueller but it’s also an indictment of the Dems on the other end of these conversations who opposed a broader impeachment only because Mueller didn’t storyboard it for them. https://t.co/ey1klxGzMU
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 22, 2020

NEW >>> Mueller team found sufficient evidence that Trump committed a crime, enough to charge him if he wasn't a sitting president. Prosecutor is still "flummoxed" that Mueller would not * just say it * in his report. https://t.co/FM58FybyW6
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) September 21, 2020

The same business account that Cohen used to send hush payments to an adult film star also received “payments linked to a Russian oligarch.” ⁦@charlie_savage⁩ https://t.co/mpc3uduA9Y
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) September 22, 2020

Sad!