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The Removability Test.
THE REMOVABILITY TEST
Written on the evening of Thursday 27 August 2026. The dates in this piece matter more than they usually would, so it seemed worth telling you where I am standing.
In March, the President signed an executive order instructing Homeland Security to compile a national list of eligible voters, and the Postal Service to deliver ballots only to people whose names appeared on it.
On 25 June, a federal judge in Boston blocked the key parts of it, for the twenty-three states and the District of Columbia that had sued.
On 11 August, the same judge issued a second injunction in a…
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