Read a draft of the emergency executive order for Trump to take control of elections
Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.
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Top Democrats, voting rights experts slam Trump’s draft illegal order to seize control of voting
“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.
Read the laughable legal memo behind the claim that Trump can declare a national voting emergency
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.
Anti-voting activists coordinating with White House on blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections
The draft order is said to be based on a conspiracy theory that China interfered with the 2020 election.
States asked the Trump admin. to affirm they, not the Feds, run elections. They were met with silence
“When we asked about state sovereignty and whether they could make public statements reinforcing the state’s authority over elections, there was stunned silence.”
Dems warn DOJ’s new anti-fraud unit will target Trump’s opponents
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.
Trump’s ‘war on fraud’ announcement recalls plan for assistant attorney general who answers to Vance
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.
In latest voting lie, Trump says Dem voters get ‘seven ballots’ as he pushes mail voting ban
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.
This week at Democracy Docket: Telling the truth about the SAVE America Act when legacy media won’t
As MAGA Republicans ramp up their push for the SAVE America Act, the legacy media is doing its best to treat the right’s lies about the bill as serious arguments.
Trump accuses Supreme Court justices of disloyalty for declaring his tariffs illegal
President Trump accelerated his assault on the federal judiciary Thursday by accusing “certain” Supreme Court justices of being “unpatriotic and disloyal” by striking down most of his tariffs.