The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power to take over elections — the Constitution be damned.
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.
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.
Peter Ticktin, the Florida-based lawyer leading an effort to have President Donald Trump issue an executive order declaring a national emergency to enable a federal takeover of the upcoming midterm elections, shared his reasoning with Democracy Docket Thursday.
It was quickly torn to pieces by a leading expert on the president’s emergency powers.
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.”
Democratic senators sharply questioned President Donald Trump’s pick to run a new Department of Justice (DOJ) division focused on fraud, doubting the real aim of the new unit and its independence from the White House.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced that Vice President Vance would lead a “war on fraud.” The comment appears to stem from a plan for an assistant attorney general who answers directly to the White House.
President Donald Trump repeated false claims that Democrats “cheated” in the last election and escalated his push for national anti-voting policies, including a ban on mail-in voting.