Rachel Maddow reports on a federal judge's temporary injunction against the changes made by Louis DeJoy that have slowed down U.S. Postal Service deliveries and threatened the timely return of mail-in ballots in the 2020 election. Aired on 09/17/2020.
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Federal Judge To Postmaster General DeJoy: Fix What You Broke | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Now he needs to be PROSECUTED!!! Its coming whether he likes it or not!
@Buff Straw dead Americans…..190,000 plus. That’s a sick # of indictments.
@Buff Straw I looked for awhile, but the interactive map that I used is taken down, but the source for that data was “PACER”, some lawyer tool you have to pay for.
Its a hotly debated issue, as many KNOW there are traitorous & marxist filth in the globalist establishment & that we cant go forward or our country will be destroyed , some say they are “proceedings’ & that they are not actual indictments. Sounds too good to be true, but the ppl are getting groomed to digest these issues with Epstein & NXVIM.
@Buff Straw PolitFact is left-wing propaganda. Ok, so maybe not the entire team, but most of the key players, including Weisman, who wiped two phones. Even if it was just a couple of phones on the entire team (it was over 20), it’s still obstruction of justice. Even NPR has aired doubts about PolitiFact: https://www.npr.org/2012/01/10/144974110/political-fact-checking-under-fire .
@Danielle Adair Let me check: 56F with a 40% chance of scattered showers. Did you plan to ride in on a unicorn? I see you believe in children’s fantasies. Besides, there’s no doubt about the $million or so in “commissions” that Hunter Biden got from the Chinese Communist Party’s $1.5 billion investment. Sure, they gave a known cocaine user all that money, and it wasn’t a bribe for his daddy. (I bet you believe that too.) That silly Chinese Communist Party did this even though Hunter has zero experience in finances or China. Goodness, they’re dumb! Those are FACTS. You don’t even need a Mueller probe to verify them.
De Joy doesn’t have control of the USPS.
“USPS is operated by a 11-person Board of Governors (which resembles the board of directors of a public corporation)—the Postmaster General, his deputy (currently vacant), and nine governors appointed by the President and approved by the Senate for seven-year terms. All six of the current independent governors were appointed by President Trump; three slots are empty. The Board appoints the Postmaster General, who acts as the CEO.
A separate Postal Regulatory Commission with five members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate oversees the USPS, including the rates it charges.”
Brookings.edu
Good job. Dejoy just realized there are 2 practices depending of the job: he can’t act as a good crook like when he was a CEO
Dejoy needs to pay out of his pocket for these machines.
Angela Mathys do you have any evidence it was a lie?
Or have you NOT noticed how slow the mail is now thanks to your leader trump and dejoy trying to rig the election for trump to stay in power and spread his fascism to the younger generation?
Jesse Moore And do you have VALID evidence of that bold claim of yours trump supporter?
Or are you another Russian bot?
Adam Thomas finally someone with common sense!!
@Angela Mathys. I don’t want to cause or spread hatred, and I challenge you to do the same. Respectfully, If you cannot see how the removal of sorting machines and mail boxes have caused great controversy and have disrupted our election year during COVID 19…. then you have some serious intellectual problems. If you CAN see that these actions will cause serious problems, then why are you not asking your beloved President why he didn’t do something a long time ago to ensure that our election goes fairly and smoothly? He certainly had plenty of time to get things in order before Election Day. (Or was he still out playing golf)? If this election is ruined because of the dismantling of the USPS, trump should be forced to forfeit! PERIOD!
@Tsukuyomi tomaki reverse of facism..this is America …we will teach what is right! If you don’t like it..you can move to France or somewhere with high taxes ..that I’m sure you will enjoy paying.
I don’t understand how dejoy can show his face, or even live with himself! Creepy little weasel.
Dejoy lives with himself just fine the same way trump does, or Barr or Graham or any of those GOP thieves.
@Starrsy4 that’s the best you can do? Insulting the messenger because you can’t refute the message.
@RavenPoe Heck they don’t have souls!
$ Keeps his head up .
Power and money!
It’s not just the election. Things like prescriptions by mail have been seriously delayed putting people’s health at risk.
@Chris Moseley There are large potions of medication that are sent by mail. If people run out of heart medications, diabetic supplies, etc and their suppliers sent them through the mail…these people are stuck waiting for essential life saving product. Prescriptions were filled, so they cannot just go to a pharmacist and get what they need until the mail delivers it.
@Chris Moseley Having trouble with your reading comprehension, Chris? Finding it tough to grasp the topic at hand? It isn’t a complicated concept.
Covid had nothing to do with the changes DeJoy imposed upon the postal service. The mail was being delivered relatively the same as it was before he was put in charge of the USPS.
@Benson Obama did it is all the trumpies can say.
@Ron You enjoy copy pasting the same comment in each thread? Bot much?
That’s included in the lawsuit, you can see the ruling and related materials on Leonard French YouTube channel
THANKYOU TO THE FEDERAL JUDGE OF WASHINGTON STATE.. FINALLY ACTION IS TAKEN AGAINST THIS CORRUPT PRESIDENT AND ADMINISTRATION.
I want to send her/him a Baskin Robin ice cream gift card! ! I can handle that.
Yet another illegal policy during Trumps presidency
to save him self only
me me me lie lie lie lie then white hate
Rachel’s a fake.
Travis Jochimsen ok trump supporter
You are blind ..and so are the ones who liked your post. unfortunately your brain washed by a bunch of swamp rats looking to take our freedom..mic drops.
Why isnt anyone being criminally charged? trump his met the requirements to be charged with sedition several times!
I totally agree nothing but corruption in plain view
@Conan Well said Conan we can’t rely on mail in voting we need to get out and vote in person
Mitch McConnell and the Republican senators are the reason Evil trump is still there. Make sure every Republican senator who is on the ballot is voted out!
The sedition is against the swamp..not illegal.
1% joe is the swamp.
He needs to be removed immediately and replace him with someone loyal to the job at hand, rather than loyalty to Trump.
The post office is a joke. It needs help
If you are worried about mail in votes, go vote in person. Nothing is stopping you and I’m sure most poll places will have social distancing rules in place.
@Plainsburner “go vote in person. Nothing is stopping you ”
And nothing WILL stop me. BIDEN/HARRIS 2020!!!!!
Big Blue Tsunami is coming. Trump Crimes Commission is coming. Justice is coming. Karma is coming.
@Conan – I agree on the mechanical issues, but they can immediately fix the problem with carriers not being allowed to properly do their jobs. That would help.
@Plainsburner There is a virus and most “normal people with working brain cells” don’t wish to take a chance on becoming infected. Where have you been the last 6months; twit.
Dejoy needs to be locked up in prison immediately.
@Mike Morgan A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday granted a request from 14 states to temporarily block operational changes within the U.S. Postal Service that have been blamed for a slowdown in mail delivery, saying President Trump and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy are “involved in a politically motivated attack” on the agency that could disrupt the 2020 election.
So that’s is eminent harm and future damages related to those voters who are older and more susceptible to the coronavirus and want to use the mail so as not to get infected and die. Plus the mail is used for those who are senior citizens or disabled and veterans when get their life saving medicines through the mail so that’s another big reason too
@Ron Judges can be impeached and jailed if found to be a criminal
@NEBULA 069 If the courts don’t provide justice street justice will have to be applied
michael mcarthur , It seems that the judge involved with this grandstanding is currently incommunicado. Could it be that the repercussions are just too much?
https://www.waed.uscourts.gov/
@CmC RR100 : Wrong. Doesn’t that only happen on TV? Think Faster. rtump only needs one judge to dissent in his favor and use his Judicial Powers to Block this judge’s ruling..
tRump guilty of high crime’s against humanity
@Starrsy4 “because you love lies more than the truth, you have been given over to great delusion”
Here’s the truth… IF you can handle it.
WHEREAS, America has reacted with horror and outrage over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has separated children from their asylum-seeking parents. These families seeking asylum are not criminals—many are fleeing the Northern Triangle of Central America (El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala), one of the deadliest regions in the world, where their communities are overrun by organized crime, violence, human trafficking and persecution; they seek refuge and compassion from our nation. These children and their parents have suffered irreparable harm and trauma; and
WHEREAS, because the American people have spoken in ways that could not be ignored, President Trump issued an executive order that calls for the pullback of the separation policy, but which, in fact, has not completely stopped the separations, nor repaired the harm already done to thousands; it has only replaced one crisis for another, but children do not belong in jail under any circumstances, and family unification must not be traded for family imprisonment; and
WHEREAS, denying the nurturing care that babies, toddlers and young school-age children require for proper development may cause these children in detention to suffer irreversible neurological and developmental damage; and
WHEREAS, the American Federation of Teachers has fought back against this inhumane treatment of children; we have taken action across the United States and in the halls of Congress; we have delivered books and education supplies to children and families at the southern border; we have presented a formal complaint for action to the United Nations Human Rights Council; and we have participated in many actions across the country; and
WHEREAS, the AFT has worked alongside civic leaders, clergy, refugee and immigrant rights groups, and other community organizations in this work—including the Hispanic Federation, Kids in Need of Defense, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the National Action Network, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, PEN America, T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, the UndocuBlack Network, United We Dream, Voto Latino and our sisters and brothers in the labor movement—to right this horrible wrong; and
WHEREAS, children are being forcibly taken from their parents’ arms and immediately locked up in cages and detention centers by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and are later transferred to group shelters and foster care settings by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Department of Health and Human Services; CBP officials have consistently relied on deceitful practices to separate children from their parents, such as telling parents that their children are being taken for a bath, when in reality they are being placed in a cage and detention center, and later transferred to ORR custody; and
WHEREAS, the traumatic policy of forcibly breaking families apart at the border, and the refusal to grant asylum to refugees, violates the letter and the spirit of numerous U.N. treaties and protocols, including the “Convention against Torture,” “the Right to Family Life,” “the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and the “Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders”:
RESOLVED, that we must stand up and call this separation policy exactly what it is: a crime against humanity. We have witnessed this scene before in history, including but not limited to: during the forced separation of families of millions of enslaved people, a founding act of violence and inhumanity in the United States; during the unconscionable internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II; during the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust; in Argentina, with the “disappearances” of children and loved ones during a generation of political repression; and with the refugee crisis and family displacement in present-day Syria. Our darkest times have often been marked by the forced separation and detention of “the Other,” and it is happening again today, in full view of the American people and the world; and
RESOLVED, that the American Federation of Teachers condemns and calls for a total repeal of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies and indefinite family incarcerations that erode our values, divide our nation and separate children from their parents. We will press our actions on every front, using all our resources to push back—in the streets, through the media, in courtrooms, in our union halls, in houses of faith, in Congress and at all levels of our legislatures; and
RESOLVED, that the AFT calls for due process that provides all children and families seeking asylum with adequate protections and legal services, including a legal advocate who can provide children and families with guidance through the legal, humanitarian and asylum process; and
RESOLVED, that the AFT calls on all members to become part of a national vigilance and resistance network to confront this national crisis; when we see in our schools and communities children who may be victims of the government’s inhumane policies, we will utilize social media and report the situation to national organizations that stand ready to assist, such as the Vera Institute of Justice (www.vera.org(link is external)), dedicated to securing equal justice and supporting immigrants’ legal representation; and
RESOLVED, that the AFT will fully engage in the political battle to see that this kind of tragedy never occurs again in this country; we will continue to oppose the gutting of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, and the separation of children and family detention; we will fully support proposed legislation that opposes the Trump administration’s unconscionable policies, such as the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act in the House of Representatives, and the Keep Families Together Act in the Senate; and we will support those who are leading the legislative fight, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Reps. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Juan Vargas (D-Calif.), among many others; and
RESOLVED, that as representatives of those who teach and care for the next generation, we call for community-based alternatives to family detention, and for congressional oversight on the care and treatment of children in U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities to ensure the medical, educational and mental health needs of children are being met; and
RESOLVED, that the AFT will continue to press its formal human rights complaint (co-signed by 14 additional human rights activists) lodged with the United Nations Human Rights Council, urging the council to raise awareness and response, and pull the curtain back on this cynical policy that is both cruel and immoral; and
RESOLVED, that we will work with Education International and Public Services International to take expedited action to secure the introduction of a U.N. General Assembly resolution, during September’s New York meetings, condemning the Trump administration’s action at our southern border to be a crime against humanity.
@Starrsy4 “you love lies more than the truth, you have been given over to great delusion”
Here’s some more truth for you, Starrsy. Choke on it:
WE HONOR AND CHERISH the memory, the courage, and the spirit of those Americans who suffered and fought and died whether willingly or unwillingly in the name of our Nation: on the battlefields, on the cotton fields, on the Great Plains and the River Valleys, and those Americans who are today being assaulted, beaten, shot and murdered by unrepentant and undeniably racist police forces befitting a fascist regime, and those Americans who daily fill our hospitals fighting a novel virus, contagious and deadly. But if we wish to make this claim of honor true, first we must honor Truth itself; for, Truth is the only thing that cannot be overcome. AND TRUTH IS NOW TELLING US WHAT MUST BE DONE.
REGRETFULLY, IN THE LIGHT OF REASONABLE
AND SOUND REFLECTION upon:
His fluency of falsehoods,
His fear of criticism and responsibility,
His insistence on taking credit where credit is not due,
His deficit of emotion-regulation resulting in juvenile displays, personal attacks and insults unbecoming an adult,
His incumbency and his bid for reelection containing no plan, no mandate, no message, no ideas,
His inability to maintain discretion on social media, and
His increasingly bizarre behavior that reveals an unstable personality,
President Donald Trump has forfeited the trust and the confidence of those government institutions in his charge that possess knowledge, sensitive and secret, of matters affecting national security that they cannot in good confidence share with their President and Commander-in-Chief.
THIS PRESIDENT has been derelict in his duties.
THIS PRESIDENT has undermined The Constitution of the United States.
THIS PRESIDENT has committed crimes of human cruelty at our Nation’s southern border – potentially to include crimes against humanity.
THIS PRESIDENT has been legally impeached.
THIS PRESIDENT has not achieved any tangible act toward the betterment of the Nation.
THIS PRESIDENT has withheld information he is required by law to produce.
THIS PRESIDENT has been curiously secretive amid investigations persuant to the nature of his relationship with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
THIS PRESIDENT is encouraging extreme street violence at the level of complicity.
This list of offenses, while not exhaustive, provides more than enough cause to pursue criminal charges.
ALL OF THE ABOVE IS CLEAR, OBVIOUS AND TRUE — AND IS KNOWN TO BE TRUE BY ALL BRANCHES OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, BY THE FBI, BY THE UNITED STATES MILITARY, AND BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION.
DONALD TRUMP IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO OUR NATION AND HE MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT.
(Publius Valerius)
@Buff Straw good lord Am I glad I decided to go about comments today!!! Your my new Hero!! I read Everything, twice! I will be watching for you and more of your Truth,wisdom,and American way! Vote the Trumpvirus out and Save America..
@Buff Straw Keep up the fight. I have little hope for change because of the stupidity epidemic here, but these through, well thought out & most of all TRUE posts, brought a little brightness to my bleak outlook. Thank you so much. May you & yours be well. Good luck, America. 💕🐓🥰
@Starrsy4 <--- SCOUNDREL Defending a SCOUNDREL. One term was too much. ! Vote him out 2020 Lock him up 2021
Way to go Judge! Let’s hope this order is not IGNORED by the postmaster general as will be ordered by Trump.
You are living another fantasy that is soon to be shattered. Just like your Madame President fantasy was shattered. When will you learn that maddcow is lying to your faces for views and money?
It’s just propaganda..just go vote in person.
De Joy looks and speaks just like a mafia stereotype.
@Derry Taylor Good 1🤣🤣
Be careful bobby your family is in peril now and wimpy democrats cant defend them you cant!
@Mike Morgan So he just bought “part” of the USPS & tRUMP’s favors for a million dollars??? Thanks for the heads up!!!!!!!!!
Debbie H , You can prove your claims? Send some proof.
MORE LIKE A PATSY / POTS , you watch TRUMP is going to let him hang dry on his own .
I mailed a package that I was able to track online. It actually sat for 17 days without moving… slow enough
Yipes, Paula! Now imagine a ballot, millions. of ballots… Thankful for this judge, and hope there are time, will and resources to fix things.
some interesting facts from the ruling:
“”Plaintiffs report that in Tennessee, trucks are leaving sorting facilities for cross-country trips completely empty as a result of the new policy not allowing a truck to remain even five minutes so it can be loaded with mail.””
Also: plaintiffs presented evidence showing that 72% of mail sorting machines that were removed were located in counties Hillary Clinton won in 2016. I wonder how Dejoy would explain that lol.
thats why we need voting in person. mail in voting has fraud and can be manipulated by both parties.
Sending thousands of truck over the country daily while empty, sounds about right for a Trump business plan.
DeJoy will be going from DePostOffice to DeJail
trump and his followers have been playing with fire and about to get burned the time has come to bring these criminals too face Justice
Biden Harris 2020
@The Flame Fist God dnc paid for a fake intel on trump and then used it to unlawfully spy on his campaign sounds like clition and the dnc are just as bad.
@Sean Ryan just a partial list.
having a rally without masks when it’s mandated by the states , the emoluments clause multiple times , stealing ppe from hospitals and selling it , colluding with foreign powers to dig dirt on political opponents in return for favours , putting kids in cages , sterilising immigrants without their consent, allowing murder against a journalist to please his friends, using chemical weapons against his own citizens, need I go on ? or are you just another traitor that hates America?
Telling ppl to vote twice, obstruction of justice, obstruction of congress, hatch act, bribery,
negligent homicide.
trump lied about the virus and 200,000 americans died.
that’s more criminal than any other presidency.
@Sean Ryan ” from what I remember democrats are the party of slavery ”
back when republicans were the party pf socialism and Lincoln was cozy with marx.
.
Travis Jochimsen you’re pitiful. There is irrefutable evidence of trumps failures and lies and yet, like a true kool aid guzzler, you refuse to acknowledge your ignorance l
@Sean Ryan even if that’s true you say that as if Republicans weren’t guilty of this in the past. I.e: WATERGATE SCANDAL!!!
“I don’t think science knows” person who claimed there were airports in 1776
I don’t think science knows Guy suggested putting Bleach and Bright Lights into a body to cure what he called a Liberal Hoax.
The great USAF of the great union army 😂 didnt they drop jdams from 30k feet
@CmC RR100 Betsy Ross sewed the Airbourne’s Parachutes. Paul Revere was the Drop Master!
When Did The Wright Brothers Invent The First Plane.
BIDEN…A Black Person Invented The Light Bulb.
A “Loser” is someone who supported Trump in 2016. A “Sucker” is someone who still does!
Indoctrination is not truth.
@Scott BC31H trump has 96 percent negative coverage on media. how much negative overage is there of the left. and I am trying to set the example I wanted tusli gabbard. she was the best uncorrupt anti war candidate we had and the media and the establishment had to try to destroy her with lie. you step out of line and the media and cooperate politicians will come after you.
@Sean Ryan “96 percent negative coverage on media”
Yet 100% negative actions towards 99% of Americans.
@Scott BC31H trumps not a conservative. he’s a New York democratic who is now a populist candidate so how are conservatives dehumanize people
Wow…….you come up with that all by yourself?? You must be super smart!
This is wicked, I can’t believe this is america
You are getting a good look at the conscience of your countrymen. Never forget it. The South has been threatening to rise again for 150 years. And here they are. What will America be if they win? And, if not? This election is where America chooses her fate. Of course they are doing everything they can. Never forget it.