"After a life of wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable"
— In a video announcing Dolly Parton’s death at age 80, her nephew revealed why she asked to be buried in a bed of cotton. We’ll always love you, Dolly.
Politics
Mailing It In
What’s going on: Nearly one in three Americans voted by mail in 2024 — the practice is largely used by voters who are white, over 65, or in the US military (so basically, President Donald Trump’s base). Still, that hasn’t deterred his crusade to restrict mail-in voting, and the Supreme Court just sided with him in the fight. On Monday, a divided court issued an emergency opinion that paves the way for the Trump administration to rewrite the mail-in ballot process. Under the president's executive order (first signed in March), voting by mail would be limited to US citizens verified by the federal government. The USPS would then be allowed to deliver ballots only to names on the list. The government says this will eliminate noncitizen voting, though numerous reports have found this practice to be extremely rare.
Not so fast: Despite the court’s move, the mail-in voting process hasn’t changed. That’s because there’s another injunction against the executive order that’s making its way through the courts. Still, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — one of three who dissented in the emergency opinion — said this approval “needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections.” There are also questions surrounding how the USPS would handle such a change under its current workload and financial constraints. That isn't stopping Trump from doing what he can to control the process. In the past month, he’s named four Republicans who doubt election security and the 2020 election results to the USPS Board of Governors.
