NJ to file a lawsuit in the next few days against USPS: AG
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal is vowing to sue the United States Postal Service in order to "protect the integrity of the upcoming election and halt the sudden and sweeping operational changes made by the U.S. Postal Service." Yahoo Finance's Alexis Keenan joins Akiko Fujita to discuss.
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AKIKO FUJITA: We've got some news from the US Postal Service breaking within the last few hours. The postmaster general announcing he will be suspending any changes or proposed changes until after the election. Meantime, New Jersey, attorney general there saying that he will be suing the USPS. Let's bring in Alexis Keenan for the very latest on that front. Alexis?
ALEXIS KEENAN: Hi, Akiko. I'm also seeing some news here that Pennsylvania is planning to file a lawsuit as well. That's according to reports. Though the New Jersey attorney general, Gurbir Grewal, he said in a tweet first that he intended to sue the USPS over its operational changes that have been made to slow mail delivery service. And it certainly made a tremendous controversy over the November presidential election.
Now after that tweet, the attorney general said this to Yahoo Finance-- we must act quickly to protect the integrity of the upcoming election and halt the sudden and sweeping operational changes made by the US Postal Service. We expect to file a lawsuit in the next few days, one of several lawsuits that state attorneys general are bringing to safeguard our democracy. Now, that lawsuit will add to the multi-state litigation that is pending now against the Post Office handled by the Washington State attorney general.
Today Colorado also joined that effort with those other states. Those include Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, now sounds like with the addition of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Akiko?
