The ruling Monday marked a loss for Trump after his March executive order created new rules for the U.S. Postal Service to track mail-in ballots and thus fight election fraud.
Describing that ruling on the “Jenna Ellis in the Morning” program, Cleta Mitchell ripped the right-leaning justices who sided with the liberals on the court whom she said oppose secure elections because they're Marxist judges.
“What we've seen,” Mitchell complained, “is a complete assault on all efforts that President Trump has made to address issues and problems that we all know exist in our elections.”
Mitchell, a seasoned attorney with the Election Integrity Network, credited Justice Samuel Alito for his dissent that said the plaintiffs didn’t have standing.
“Which they didn’t,” Mitchell said. “And he cited all the Supreme Court decisions that said that.”
Show host Jenna Ellis pointed out the Supreme Court has set back Trump’s attempt to clamp down on ballot fraud at the same time the Republican-led Congress has yet to pass the Save America Act that also addresses fraud.
“It seems like we keep saying we need to do this for the next election, the next election,” Ellis told Mitchell. “Then it doesn't seem like there's really a ton of push.”
Despite those setbacks, Mitchell struck a more positive tone when describing grassroots efforts to fight election fraud, such as trained election observers and fewer mail-in ballots.
“We have hundreds and hundreds of volunteers around the country who now are engaged in watching what's going on with their elections,” Mitchell said.
Voting by mail is the “petri dish” for ballot fraud and election cheating by Democrats, Mitchell said, but the number of people voting by mail has been steadily declining since 2020 and the Covid pandemic.
Another setback for election fraud, Mitchell advised, is a crackdown on ballot harvesting in nursing homes. That political tactic preys on the elderly in nursing homes to produce a stack of ballots marked for Democrat candidates.
Mitchell credited Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for reversing Biden administration guidance that encouraged nursing home staff to register residents and help them vote.
That mandate from CMS came in September 2024, two months before Election Day. There are an estimated 1.2 million nursing home residents, so that effort was viewed by Republicans as a blatant attempt to help Kamala Harris find more votes in the hallways and rooms.
“This has been a very aggressive effort for many, many years by Democrats and their left-wing NGOs,” Mitchell advised, "who go into these nursing homes, and who basically just register people and then cast ballots in their names.”
The new CMS rules protect those residents from being manipulated, Mitchell said, and it also means Democrats have a million fewer potential votes.
Summarizing why all those fraud-fighting efforts matter, Mitchell said the razor-thin GOP majority will be decided by 30 congressional districts. Many of those races, she said, will be decided by only a few hundred votes separating winner and loser.
