General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom 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. 103322, 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.
Wicked Blue
(5,863 posts)bullimiami
(13,111 posts)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)But, if nobody lifts a finger to enforce those laws or to save the usps, what good does that do?
onetexan
(13,078 posts)IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)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.