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i woke up on a thursday
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and read that the postmaster general had
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instituted
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uh this is la 2020 during the election
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had instituted slow down procedures
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that were going to make it very
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difficult to deliver mail-in ballots on
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time to the voters
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and then to pick them up collect them
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and send the vote send them in
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to election officials by friday night
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my team and i had filed a lawsuit
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against donald trump
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against louis de joy the postmaster
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general
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and the post office of the united states
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u.s postal service
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so we filed the suit in the
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district federal district courts in d.c
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and we drew judge sullivan i’m already
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out of his court so i’m not seeking
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favor
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he’s one of the best judges i’ve ever
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appeared before
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and i’ve appeared before judges across
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the country he issued an
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injunction against the postal service
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and there were seven or eight
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injunctions
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three or four in his court and three or
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four around the country
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so we weren’t the only law firm doing
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this but we
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think to a major extent the preliminary
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injunction
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basically precluding any further slow
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down procedures
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we think that had a very salutary effect
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on mail-in ballots and getting them
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delivered and getting them counted
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and i count that i count that as one of
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my happiest moments in the law when i
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saw that preliminary injunction
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and to get the opportunity to appear we
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did it by zoom
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which makes it kind of intimate you know
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you see a federal judge walk away from
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the camera
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with his shirt tail out he kind of makes
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it more human
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it was a wonderful experience

Houston, TX commercial litigation attorney David Berg tells the story of how he sued alleging that the U. S. Postal Service was slowing down the delivery of mail-in ballots to voters.

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