First Circuit upholds stay of US Postal Service's rule on mail-in ballots.
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"The district court made detailed findings about the chaos and widespread disenfranchisement that would occur between now and November 3 should the Final Rule take immediate effect, including the fact that it would be impossible for some States to reprint compliant envelopes; ... delays in ... USPS envelope review process; ....
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".. lack of a ... operative portal; and ... herculean task that would confront the USPS in scanning tens of millions of ballot envelopes and reviewing for a match with information in the presently non-operative portal. There is no countervailing record evidence disputing the district court's findings on these points."
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"Appellants seek to avoid the constitutional problem by denying that the Final Rule regulates the manner of holding elections. The district court charitably concluded that "[t]his denial rings hollow."
"The district court made detailed findings about the chaos and widespread disenfranchisement that would occur between now and November 3 should the Final Rule take immediate effect, including the fact that it would be impossible for some States to reprint compliant envelopes; ... delays in ... USPS envelope review process; ....
"Appellants have not convinced us that it is likely that Congress would delegate constitutionally assigned tasks relevant to maintaining our electoral system to the Postal Service through the "wafer-thin reed" of a general grant of authority to manage the postal system."