USPS Plays a 'Puzzle Game' With the Right to Vote

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The Justice Department has asserted that USPS has "broad authority" under its general powers statute "to adopt, amend, and repeat such rules and regulations...as may be necessary in the execution of its functions" and under its specific powers statute to "provide for the collection, handling, transportation, delivery, forwarding, returning, and holding of mail."
53% : It reserves most aspects of elections entirely for states, and it reserves time, place and manner regulations for states too except that those may be preempted by Congress.
47% : " The plaintiffs chime in to suggest that the major questions doctrine also ought to apply because their contention is that Congress has given away a core congressional power, regardless of whether you cite the Postal Service Clause or the Elections Clause, and because the regulation of one of the most common forms of voting in the country constitutes an obvious "political question.
43% : (Along the way, the Justice Department appears to attempt to convince Judge Talwani it doesn't make sense for voluntary regulations on election mail to be authorized and mandatory regulations not, but has little success.)

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