Sep 18, 2026 · 59 min · 24 segments
**OA1297** - This week on Rapid Response Friday: SCOTUS once again confirms the color of the sky, the latest failures in DOJ’s attempts to prosecute Trump’s political opponents, why the most important…
Matt CameronHostThomas SmithHost
We're going to touch on the big USPS case in which the Supreme Court had the opportunity to completely destroy our chances of having a democracy.
I want to let Janessa cover the most important election law aspects of this, but I just want to give people the framework of what this thing is and isn't.
The Alito dissent, of course, just exactly as expected, is just completely nuts because that's what you expect from an Alito dissent in something as earth-shaking as trying to completely change the way that we do federal elections.
Even though it feels like things are worse than ever MAGA-wise, Republican-wise, the two worst justices are two of the old, one of the oldest and let's see, is Alito the second longest tenured or the third, maybe the third?
So two of the oldest justices who've been there the longest anyway are two of the worst and by far worse.
This vote is one of those where you're like, What is the line for them? What would they not, you know, where would they draw the line on some of this stuff?
This is very much one of those questions where we have gone all the way to the Supreme Court to ask, hey, what color is the sky? Yeah.
We're going to touch on the big USPS case in which the Supreme Court had the opportunity to completely destroy our chances of having a democracy.
I want to let Janessa cover the most important election law aspects of this, but I just want to give people the framework of what this thing is and isn't.
The Alito dissent, of course, just exactly as expected, is just completely nuts because that's what you expect from an Alito dissent in something as earth-shaking as trying to completely change the way that we do federal elections.
Even though it feels like things are worse than ever MAGA-wise, Republican-wise, the two worst justices are two of the old, one of the oldest and let's see, is Alito the second longest tenured or the third, maybe the third?
So two of the oldest justices who've been there the longest anyway are two of the worst and by far worse.
This vote is one of those where you're like, What is the line for them? What would they not, you know, where would they draw the line on some of this stuff?
This is very much one of those questions where we have gone all the way to the Supreme Court to ask, hey, what color is the sky? Yeah.
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