Louis Dejoy deliberately crippled the efficiency of the USPS by ordering automated mail sorting machines removed. Now Judge Emmet Sullivan has ordered this sabotage to be reversed.
BY JORDAN WILLIAMS
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to restore high-speed mail sorting machines at facilities that cannot process First Class election mail efficiently amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Thursday order was intended to clarify an injunction issued late last month that prevented the Trump administration from enforcing operational changes by implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in June and July that included removing high-speed sorting machines.
USPS at the time had asked the judge to clarify the order, claiming that the dismantled machines couldn't be put back together again, according to Bloomberg.
USPS also has to provide a status report by Friday at 5 p.m. to inform “the Court of its efforts to comply with this Court’s instructions here and in the previous order.”