chris joining us now is judge andrew
napolitano foxus senior judicial analyst
and host of liberty file
on fox nation judge there was a lot to
take in on this debate over the weekend
where do you where do things stand with
you when you come to
both sides how political this has gotten
and what we
know and don't know
well i'm sorry that it's gotten
political and i share the president's
views that the post office has been
terribly mismanaged
the the principal reason is that it has
no competition yeah there's fedex and
ups and other delivery services
but you can't charge less than the post
office by law
and you can't compete for first class
delivery by law
so when the post office has guaranteed
business
but no competition obviously they have
no
incentive to to operate efficiently the
other side of this argument is the post
office is as expressly articulated
in the constitution meaning the federal
government has to operate the post
office and it ought to do so
uh efficiently and it should not do so
in a way that's going to get political
whether it impairs the
right to vote for one side or another
stated differently congress needs to do
something
immediately so that the post office is
working properly
in the next three months and then engage
in some sort of a
big fix with perhaps competition but
they can't do that now
to the political nature of this here's
chuck schumer yesterday listen
donald trump is aimed at hurting the
elections
he says he wants to slow down the mail
to hurt the elections and make people
doubt the results of the election
maybe he's worried he's going to lose it
doesn't matter our elections are sacred
judge contrast that with what we're
hearing from doug
collins a republican who said all of
this is just scare tactics listen
when speaker pelosi sent a letter to her
colleagues she talked about
social security checks not being sent
out folks we know that president obama
put everything for the most part on
electronic payment for social security
this is a scare tactic they're simply
trying to scare voters into thinking
something is wrong
with the voting system and that they
can't go and vote and
the republicans are doing it to them
judge
well you know senator depends who you
who you believe and who who you
like if you if you like uh president
trump
and want him to win you're probably of
the view that you ought to get out
and vote and if you can't the post
office will work
if you don't like president trump then
you're probably of the view
uh that his words are intended to
suppress the vote so he can say what he
wants
he has to enforce the federal law he
can't
intentionally sabotage the post office
either overtly
or covertly but there's a lot of
mismatches here for example i live in
new jersey and if i were to vote by mail
in new jersey
my ballot must be postmarked by a
certain date
postmark the post office doesn't use
postmarks
anymore for mail that has a
digital code on the front of it so how
could anyone prove
when it was postmarked so federal law
and state law
need to be in sync as to when you mail
and where you mail and how you mail and
buy when you
must mail for your vote to count
you know americans are being told so
many different things on this issue now
nancy pelosi
calling on members come back to
washington to look at this issue
testify on capitol hill the postmaster
general
final thought judge
i think the testimony will help but if
the house passes a
25 billion dollar budget for the post
office and the senate doesn't pass it
then it's just a political hot potato
and it's not going to improve the males
at all do the males need to be improved
absolutely is it the job of the federal
government to do so
under the constitution it is great to
get your legal thoughts on all of that
this morning judge thank you