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Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive · Sep 15, 2026

1. The Supreme Court just killed the mail ballot rule for November. The vote isn’t the story. The name on it is. Brett…

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Brett Kavanaugh has blocked three election integrity measures in three weeks through emergency orders, with Thomas and Alito dissenting on the latest mail ballot ruling. The thread argues Congress must pass the SAVE Act rather than relying on courts to protect election integrity.

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    1. The Supreme Court just killed the mail ballot rule for November. The vote isn’t the story. The name on it is. Brett Kavanaugh has now personally stopped three election integrity measures in three weeks, and today Alito and Thomas dissented against him. 🧵

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    2. Today’s order was unsigned and said the administration is unlikely to succeed on the merits. But Kavanaugh put his own words on it: applying the Postal Service rule in the 2026 midterms would be “arbitrary and capricious.” The block stands through November 3.

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    3. Two of his fellow conservatives disagreed in writing. Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. When Thomas and Alito are on one side of an election case and Kavanaugh is on the other, that tells you everything about where he actually sits on this Court.

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    4. Three weeks ago, Missouri. Republicans asked the Court to let the map their legislature passed be used in November. Kavanaugh denied it alone, no comment, no referral to the full court. 1.2 million Missourians had already voted on that map in the August primary.

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    5. Then Michigan. A proof-of-citizenship measure that would have gone before the voters. Kavanaugh refused to put it on the ballot. Same pattern. No opinion. No explanation. Just a one-line denial and a story that disappears in a news cycle.

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    6. Now the mail ballots. Same justice, same result, three for three. And every one of them landed close enough to November that there’s no time to fix it. That’s not a coincidence. That’s the calendar doing the work a ruling would have to justify.

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    7. Remember what this country went through in 2018 to put him on that Court. The hearings. The accusations. What his family endured. Republicans spent every ounce of political capital they had. This is what it bought us on election law.

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    8. So here’s the takeaway, and it’s not despair. The Court left the door open for future elections. The courts aren’t going to hand us election integrity. Congress has to pass it. The SAVE Act is sitting in the Senate right now with the votes to move it.

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    9. Fifty senators and a Vice President willing to take the chair. That’s the whole path. No robes required. Pass the SAVE Act. 🇺🇸