Democratic state attorneys general on Friday will seek to block President Donald Trump’s proposal for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. elections in a case that tests a constitutional bedrock — the separation of powers.
The top law enforcement officials from 19 states filed a federal lawsuit after the Republican president signed the executive order in March, arguing that its provisions would step on states’ power to set their own election rules and that the executive branch had no such authority.
In a filing supporting that argument, a bipartisan group of former secretaries of state said Trump’s directive would upend the system established by the Constitution’s Elections Clause, which gives states and Congress control over how elections are run. They said the order seeks to “unilaterally coronate the President as the country’s chief election policymaker and administrator.”
Why are we still talking about “constitutional bedrock”?
Because that shit has been dynamited and strip-mined into irrelevance. The mythical “checks and balances” have largely failed to materialize - definitely now, but also in a more subtle fashion over the last decade or three. This is just the final act, wherein they start ignoring it wholesale.
Just uhh, whoever’s last, just turn off the lights and lock the door? Thanks.
every state that has Democratic leadership should be involved in these lawsuits we have to make sure that the next elections are safe and secure if we’re going to keep this country together at all
I’m becoming more certain by the day that that ship has sailed, and the best way forward may genuinely be balkanization.
Every state should be involved in these lawsuits, especially the ones who pretend the civil war was about states rights.
That’s not all he’s aiming to be coronated as.
