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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42694823
Trump has no power to “decree” that voters must present ID or to end mail-in balloting. But that doesn’t mean he can’t at least try both. Under the Insurrection Act or some other dusty statute, he can declare a state of emergency. Then he can decide that said state permits, nay requires, him to take extraordinary measures. On October 5, say, that might mean outlawing early voting. By October 13, it might mean no mail-in voting. By October 29, a reminder that all voters must present ID to vote. And by Sunday, November 1, two days before the election—an announcement that all these “reasonable” measures have alas failed, and he is now forced, against his will, to postpone the election.
Trump doesn’t get to say shit about how the States run their elections. Even if he “Hereby Do Dee-clares it.”
He isn’t technically able to do most of the stuff he does do. He just does it, and then time passes and then it gets declared retroactively illegal… but it still happened. He’ll probably get punished at some point… right?
The states run elections, lease the voting places and employ all the staff.
Unless the federal govt replaces all of them, just waving a chicken leg around and declaring stuff won’t do anything.
Or you know he could put ice officers outside strategic polls and block anyone he doesnt like from entering.
We both outnumber and out-gun ICE by an absolutely astounding margin. ICE posts at our polling places, ICE gets crushed.
And theyre still running rampant and killing us citizens. Hows that armed resistence working out for you.
There hasn’t been much of one yet, because many people don’t feel personally threatened. They will feel threatened if ICE is blocking access to their polling place though.
He and Pete Hegseth have no legal say in how the Scouts should run their affairs, too, but see what happened today?
Its the difference of the courts stopping something vs making something happen. They can’t really do either, so anything that Trump doesn’t actually have a lever of power to pull to make something won’t happen. At least not to the extent he demands.
Trump says a lot of stupid crap. What you do is ignore him. Or say, “no” to him. But never give up without a fight.
That’s true. The states can constitutionally tell him to go fuck himself. But I read a key phrase in another article that I tried to find and can’t, to the effect that his plan involves ally states.
So lets say all but five states tell him to fuck himself and hold their elections. Five do not. They have just thrown the entire election and its results into massive constitutional confusion, with lawsuits for years to come while he just sits up there shitting his Depends and grinning. And it would work: whatever anyone says should be the answer, someone else will sue over.
Elections are a huge power grab for anyone who wants even a little power. No one is going to let their piece of the pie go easily, whether that means holding an election or not holding an election, or fighting those who want the opposite, in court, forever.
All he has to do is introduce confusion, and then it will be up to SCOTUS to decide.
And SCOTUS is as corrupt as the day is long.