The Supreme Court Just Made It Harder to Vote

Archer's Line Podcast · Feb 25, 2026 · 6m

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that Americans cannot sue the U.S. Postal Service for damages when postal workers intentionally destroy or refuse to deliver mail.

The case is USPS v. Konan. The majority opinion was written by Clarence Thomas. Every Republican-appointed justice joined him except Neil Gorsuch, who sided with Sonia Sotomayor in dissent.

What the Case Was About

Lebene Konan, a landlord in Texas, says postal workers refused to deliver mail to her tenants for two years. She says it was because they objected to the fact that a Black woman was renting rooms to white people…