President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that his military strike against Iran may have been driven in part by claims that the country interfered in the last two U.S. presidential elections.
Both measures would effectively ban, or significantly hinder, voter registration drives run by schools, colleges, unions, and other civic groups that aim to reach unregistered voters and get them on the rolls.
Donald Trump’s actions threaten free and fair elections. As part of his effort, election administrators are being undermined as the federal government overreaches its power.
Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.
“Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to nationalize our elections, because he intends to steal them,” Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Joe Morelle said.
The Justice Department sued five new states Thursday demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well.
The Justice Department recklessly failed to uphold constitutional rights and liberties by allowing the FBI to seize 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, using a faulty search warrant application, former top department officials alleged.
The draft order is said to be based on a conspiracy theory that China interfered with the 2020 election.
“When we asked about state sovereignty and whether they could make public statements reinforcing the state’s authority over elections, there was stunned silence.”
By phone, over Zoom, and in person at a recent Washington, D.C. conference, Democratic state election chiefs have for months been meeting privately for planning exercises, including tabletop simulations, gaming out their response to expected election interference by President Donald Trump and his administration.