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#Trump, seeking executive #power over #elections, is urged to declare “emergency”
“Activists” who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft #ExecutiveOrder that would exert extraordinary presidential #power over #voting.
#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #Federalism #states #VotingRights #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism #tyranny
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#Trump, seeking executive #power over #elections, is urged to declare “emergency”
“Activists” who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft #ExecutiveOrder that would exert extraordinary presidential #power over #voting.
#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #Federalism #states #VotingRights #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism #tyranny
https://wapo.st/3N5cpEnPro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-pg draft #ExecutiveOrder that claims #China interfered in the #2020election [it didn’t] as a basis to declare a national “emergency” that would unlock extraordinary presidential #power over #voting.
#Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID & ban #mail #ballots in November’s #MidtermElections, & the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised EO on the issue. -
Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-pg draft #ExecutiveOrder that claims #China interfered in the #2020election [it didn’t] as a basis to declare a national “emergency” that would unlock extraordinary presidential #power over #voting.
#Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID & ban #mail #ballots in November’s #MidtermElections, & the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised EO on the issue.“Under the #Constitution, it’s the #legislatures & #states that really control how a state conducts its elections, & the president doesn’t have any power to do that,” said Peter Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who is advocating for the draft #ExecutiveOrder. Ticktin attended the New York Military Academy with #Trump & was part of his legal team that filed an unsuccessful 2022 lawsuit accusing Democrats of conspiring to damage him with allegations that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
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“Under the #Constitution, it’s the #legislatures & #states that really control how a state conducts its elections, & the president doesn’t have any power to do that,” said Peter Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who is advocating for the draft #ExecutiveOrder. Ticktin attended the New York Military Academy with #Trump & was part of his legal team that filed an unsuccessful 2022 lawsuit accusing Democrats of conspiring to damage him with allegations that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
“But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin went on. “That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”
The “emergency” would empower the president to ban mail ballots & #VotingMachines as the vectors of foreign interference, Ticktin argued.
#law #Constitution #Federalism #states #VotingRights #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism
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“But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin went on. “That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”
The “emergency” would empower the president to ban mail ballots & #VotingMachines as the vectors of foreign interference, Ticktin argued.
#law #Constitution #Federalism #states #VotingRights #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism
The idea of claiming “emergency” #ExecutivePowers based on *allegations* of foreign interference attaches new significance to the admin’s actions to reinvestigate the #2020election. #Trump has never accepted defeat, while never finding evidence of widespread fraud. DNI #TulsiGabbard [Russian propagandist] is leading a “review” of election security that officials said focuses on foreign influence.
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