3d ago

Trump order includes provision that could punish states for not ceding authority over election admin to DOJ

Trump Order Includes Provision That Could Punish States For Not Ceding Authority Over Election Admin To DOJ

Summary

Trump’s recent executive order on elections includes a provision allowing the DOJ to withhold federal funding from states that do not enter into agreements on election law violations and voter roll maintenance.

Critics argue this exceeds presidential authority and could coerce states into ceding control over election administration.

Experts warn it could undermine state autonomy and lead to punitive funding cuts over routine voter roll maintenance errors.

Legal analysts predict challenges, citing potential overreach and conflict with congressional authority.

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3d ago

Trump Order Includes Provision That Could Punish States For Not Ceding Authority Over Election Admin To DOJ

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This is the beginning of them attempting to take over the entire voting system and turn it into a circus where the winner is whoever they pick
- I hate that it's stuff like this that we have to tell people "I told you so" about.

The states that refuse to give DOJ control of elections should just stop sending tax revenue to the federal government. California is like the 4th or 5th largest economy in the world. If NY and Cali stopped sending $$ then he couldn't fund shit!

Everything should be left to the states unless it shouldn't.
- And suddenly nobody cared about states rights and the constitution anymore
  
  Or congress or the judiciary

I hate the phrase "critics say" when used in the media like this. It's a mealy-mouthed way of describing what is actually fact and gives credence to the bullshit they're trying to pull.
- YES, I'm so sick of this wording!! It hides how fucking awful the actions being taken are.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Executive orders are not laws.

They have the barest majority in both houses of congress, and they can't afford to lose either one, and have investigatory committees come under Democrat control. Unfortunately for the Nazis, things are falling into place for the 2026 midterm to be an opposition party bloodbath, like the 2010 midterm, possibly losing BOTH houses.
So the Nazis can't have a fair election in 2026, or they'll almost certainly lose. This is an attempt to Federalize the election system, a concept so anathema to our Democracy that Republicans would have started a Civil War if Dems had tried it. By bringing the election system directly under his control, he can easily rig it, and give himself supermajorities in both houses, allowing any impeachments he wants.
This morning on Meet The Press, MAGA Rep Markwayne "Hillbilly Is In The Name" Mullins was bragging about how HitlerPig always has a Plan A, B, C, D, etc. We know that from when he called off his Insurrection, making us think it was over, not knowing that he was hoping his Plan B, the audacious False Elctors Plot, would work instead.
So if this doesn't work, he will have a Plan B, and beyond. At some point he will declare Martial Law, and suspend elections. The best timing on that will be at the end of next summer, after a long violent protest season. Perhaps he will wait until college opens in the Fall, and make his worst attack on a "liberal" campus he hates.
Avoiding the 2026 mid-terms is there biggest priority right now. Once they get past that, the 2028 election, and his third term, will be up.

Critics argue this exceeds presidential authority…
They seem to… argue a lot of things. If only arguing enacted change.
And…
Legal analysts predict challenges, citing potential overreach and conflict with congressional authority.
Were these “legal analysts” 12 year old kids? Because this is something so obvious that all It takes is one to notice it.

The same DOJ he routinely ignores? That doj?

I'm calling it right now. Bingo card for 2025.
Trump will question the legitimacy of the conservative's version of the sacred "founding fathers" before mid year.
If he already did... Well shit i dunno I'm just a moron on the Internet.

Legal analysts predict challenges, citing potential overreach and conflict with congressional authority.
So a standard Trump executive order then.

Really?
Like he really wants to do that?
Fine. Do it. See which states halt their contributions. Then good luck funding those other states. The states he wants election authority in can afford to get cut off. The ones he doesn't need it in are parasite states anyway.
- He doesn't seem to want order, and the bills paid at the end of the month.
  I think breaking up the Republic would be fine with him. No commitment to the IDEALS of the USA.
  Say what you will about what the US has been, just watch "The West Wing" if you want to see an example of what drives people who care about making this country function better.
  Sure it's fiction, but it's the fictions that make living in the real world possible.
- How would states stop the flow of taxpayer money out?
  
  With the IRS gutted, it may be a matter of not having withholding on your paycheck, and then sending in blank tax forms every year.

The party of states rights, or not.

I’m increasingly getting the impression that this whole ‘union of states’ thing is a bad idea.

What's crazy is that in Canada we couldn't imagine federal elections being handled by the provinces and the centralization means voting conditions are pretty much the same over the whole country (except in very remote location where they send planes to let people vote), but in the US centralizing it with the current administration is just scary...