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onetexan

(13,078 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 07:57 PM Aug 2020

From Cornell law site: "Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail

or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)"
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1701


and from the DOJ's own site: https://www.justice.gov/crt/voting-section
"federal law continues to protect citizens from discrimination in voting and from other voting rights violations".

I'm not a lawyer but hopefully this will help assuage some of our fears.

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From Cornell law site: "Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail (Original Post) onetexan Aug 2020 OP
It would be interesting if the Postmaster General was charged and convicted of this. nt Wicked Blue Aug 2020 #1
he should be convicted of hundreds of millions of counts of obstructing the mail bullimiami Aug 2020 #4
It's nice that it's written on paper and all that... hurple Aug 2020 #2
There are Dem AGs working on it, and i'm sure the ACLU is all over it, among other orgs onetexan Aug 2020 #3
One state AG already has. IllinoisBirdWatcher Aug 2020 #5

bullimiami

(13,111 posts)
4. he should be convicted of hundreds of millions of counts of obstructing the mail
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 08:06 PM
Aug 2020

he can spend one minute in jail for each count. very lenient.
and he can pay a single dollars fine for each. also very lenient.

hurple

(1,307 posts)
2. It's nice that it's written on paper and all that...
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 07:59 PM
Aug 2020

But, if nobody lifts a finger to enforce those laws or to save the usps, what good does that do?

IllinoisBirdWatcher

(2,315 posts)
5. One state AG already has.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 08:25 PM
Aug 2020

I read in an earlier post that at least one state has similar wording making mail disruption a crime at the state level. It would be fun to see them arrested under laws Billy Bar couldn't fix.

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