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.
Weird, in Belgium a similar law was struck down by the constitutional court the other day. Hearing this from Italy, I can’t help but think this is being orchestrated on a higher level.
It is part of project 2025. Fratelli d’Italia (the party of Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister) and the republican party are very tight with each other. So much that Giorgia Meloni herself participates republican rallies and conventions sometimes so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re following the diktats of the republican party or any foreign imposed authoritarian agenda
ahhh now my penny drops. They are in the ECR fraction in the European Parliament, same fraction as NVA, the party of Belgium’s prime minister, and also the minister of defense who’s a vocal Trump supporter, still. It makes sense now. An orchestrated effort indeed. Starving the beast in Belgium, stripping social security, increased subsidies to billionaires, it’s all in that playbook I guess. And the silly social-democrats in governemnt yelling ‘without us it would be worse’ lol. All goddamn bastards.