{"id":1491,"date":"2020-08-25T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2020-08-25T19:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T19:47:34","slug":"new-yorks-attorney-general-takes-aim-at-changes-to-usps-these-authoritarian-actions-are-jeopardizing-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s attorney general takes aim at changes to USPS: \u2018These authoritarian actions are jeopardizing our democracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2020\/08\/new-yorks-attorney-general-takes-aim-at-changes-to-usps-these-authoritarian-actions-are-jeopardizing-our-democracy\/\">RawStory.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tish_James.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/media\/images2\/Tish_James.jpg\" alt=\"Tish_James.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"258\"><\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s attorney general Letitia James has filed a federal lawsuit challenging changes at the U.S. Postal Service that could impact the November election.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s new postmaster general Louis DeJoy has been grilled by lawmakers over recent changes that have resulted in delays and weakened confidence about mail-in voting, and James announced that her office was challenging those new rules, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/25\/politics\/new-york-letitia-james-usps-lawsuit\/index.html?utm_source=twcnnbrk&amp;utm_content=2020-08-25T17%3A16%3A25&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=link\">reported CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis USPS slowdown is nothing more than a voter suppression tactic,\u201d James said in a statement. \u201cYet, this time, these authoritarian actions are not only jeopardizing our democracy and fundamental right to vote, but the immediate health and financial well-being of Americans across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two other states have challenged USPS operational changes under DeJoy that have disrupted delivery across the country before the election, when more voters than ever are expected to cast absentee or mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>James has also filed lawsuits as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/new-york-ag-trump-organization-lawsuit\/2020\/08\/24\/882c03a8-e60e-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html\">part of her investigations<\/a> into the Trump Organization and its dealings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from RawStory.com New York\u2019s attorney general Letitia James has filed a federal lawsuit challenging changes at the U.S. Postal Service that could impact the November election. President Donald Trump\u2019s new postmaster general Louis DeJoy has been grilled by lawmakers over recent changes that have resulted in delays and weakened confidence about mail-in voting, and James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}