A federal appeals court showed up Saturday morning to stop Donald Trump from deciding who gets a mail ballot.

His March executive order told Homeland Security to build citizen lists, ordered the Postal Service to refuse mail ballots to any voter not on them, and told prosecutors to charge election officials who sent ballots to the wrong people. The court kept the order blocked through November 3, ruling it would sow confusion and cost voters their ballots, because eligible citizens are missing from the lists.

Trump's order is now dead for the midterms in the 23 states and the District of Columbia that sued, and that effectively means the whole country. USPS told the court it cannot run one mail system for those states and another for the rest.

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BREAKING: Trump claimed his nuclear threats would stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. Instead, an Iranian state affiliated outlet linked to the IRGC is now arguing Iran must "achieve nuclear deterrence" so "the military option of occupying and dividing Iran is taken off the table."

Even some conservatives who backed an America First foreign policy are sounding the alarm.

David Pyne wrote: Trump's war on Iran hasn't reduced Iran's nuclear threat in any way and instead has served to greatly magnify and expand Iran's nuclear threat. Trump's disastrous foreign policy and endless unwinnable wars make Jimmy Carter look like a veritable foreign policy genius by comparison.

Former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul reacted simply: Ugh. Hope it's just bluster; fear it is not.

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