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.
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.
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.
Legal analysts predict challenges, citing potential overreach and conflict with congressional authority.
So a standard Trump executive order then.
I’m increasingly getting the impression that this whole ‘union of states’ thing is a bad idea.
The party of states rights, or not.
Executive orders are not laws.
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.
Nope.
Pull their funding and you also should lose all their votes, although in this upside down I could see some states just going along with it.
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…
Don Mangolini: “Be a shame if we have to pull your funding cause you decide not to work with us…”
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