A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulated by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House.
Voting rights experts, democracy advocates, and at least one state election chief said Trump doesn’t have the authority to claim such powers — and any attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional.
The draft order — which is said to be based on a conspiracy theory that China interfered with the 2020 election — would allow Trump to unilaterally ban mail-in ballots and voting machines on the basis that they are susceptible to foreign interference.
The order comes from MAGA activists who have been coordinating with the White House. One of the advocates for the order is Peter Ticktin, the attorney for Tina Peters, the former GOP Colorado county clerk who is currently serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system breach, in an attempt to find voter fraud based on election conspiracies.
The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution explicitly gives states — not the president — sole authority over elections.
Keep an eye out. My prediction is a terrorist attack around election time pinned on Iran, Trump declares a state of emergency and tries to take control of the election.
Time to study socialist theory. Seriously! https://redsails.org/
Time to organize
In your face, anti doomers that ridicule the question “IF there are elections”!
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Makes one wonder how many more people will die before these psychopaths are finally stopped. Again.
Americans will have to tear it all down. CNN, SCROTUS, all institutions where he’s installed syncophants-everything he has touched. Anything less will be enabling fascism.
Every election, it’s the year of “stolen elections” in the upcoming election, even as they argue about the “stolen election” the last election.
Why do the corporate-owned networks allow such a news story on such a steady basis? Is the election almost stolen every couple years? Is the election never stolen? Do they steal the elections sometimes but at other times have fair elections?
I don’t think there’s ever any stealing, I think it’s purchased, every time. And THAT is why stolen elections are a constant news story.
Yesterday I saw a Hitler/Mussolini Documentary. It’s crazy how much similarity between this administration and the fascist ideas.
the Johnny Harris video? Yeah, easy to see the parallels.
If he studied Hitler’s speeches then why is he so bad at them? Wasn’t Hitler like one of the best at speeches? Some would say the very best, better than anyone has ever seen.
I’ve met people better than Hitler at speeches. That’s not the only trait that affects whether you go up in power or down. But no less important is that they might have had different desires.
My response was in part meant to be in jest to how trump speaks
Sure seems like getting trained up and in shape would be a good idea. Just in case, ya know.
If that doesnt work it was nice knowing there was an Iran once
Calling a thing “unconstitutional” just spurs that orange jackass forward
They can’t steal and election if we steal it first…Genius.
Because “blatantly illegal” has been such a stopping force so far.
You mean the same system that protects us from the corpotocracy that rape and eats out babies? I’m sure they’ll get it eight this time…
as long as there are no checks and balances, as long as no one exists with the will and sense of duty to do their job, there is no distinction between legal and illegal.
It’s legal if no one has the balls to shut it down.
Didn’t I see some meme about how things end every 250 years??
Empires don’t fall by themselves. People burn them down.
If everyone in America is waiting for “somebody” to fix everything for them then there’s a good chance America is going to exceed that 250 year mark.
At what point do we call it Gilead
probably right now if not a few years ago
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within” ― Will Durant
