Supreme Court strikes Trump's mail-ballot order 7-2, approves his voter-purge database eleven days later.

…(cont) And on October 2, with that database running and the mail-ballot order dead, the president would not rule out sending ICE agents to polling places, or reaching for the Insurrection Act if Republicans face significant losses in the midterms. Notice what happened to the word "if." The mail order was an if — if people vote by mail, screen them first. The database is an if — if your name matches, you come off the rolls. The Insurrection Act is the if that ends the sentence: if the vote doesn't go his way, soldiers.

Courts can strike down an order. They cannot un-build a database, and they cannot un-ask a question like "would you send armed agents to a polling place." The answer that matters isn't the one a court gives in a ruling weeks after the fact. It's the one nobody gave at all, on October 2, when he had the chance to just say no.

The receipts already filed it, one ruling at a time — fifteen days, four days, eleven days, seven days apart. Read them in order and the pattern isn't hidden. It's dated.