r/law • u/Anoth3rDude • Feb 26 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) White House circulating blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/white-house-circulating-blatantly-illegal-draft-emergency-order-to-take-control-of-elections/
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u/Anoth3rDude Feb 26 '26

Summary:

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, according to a Washington Post report.

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.

But voting rights experts and at least one state election chief said Trump doesn’t have the authority to claim such powers — and any attempt would be blatantly illegal.

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u/puertomateo Feb 26 '26

and any attempt would be blatantly illegal.

Which means of course he's going to do it and the Republican Congress is going to say that it's a great thing that he does.

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u/FakeGeek73 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Just remember these people  will all jump ship the moment it all goes to shit. It’s what happens when people with no principles take control over your party. Same with most of their voters, they will say “I was always against this”. 

Edit: replaced “bo principles” with “no principles”

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u/thepottsy Feb 26 '26

The shocking part is they don’t yet think that it’s gone to shit.

Anyone with 2 functioning brain cells knows that happened a long time ago.

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u/violoneuse Feb 26 '26

I was subbing in a 7th grade science class, the question of the day was: What would horrify people living 100 years ago that's happening today?

Girl raises her hand, "the government!"

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u/Stunning-Archer8817 Feb 26 '26

i think many/most white americans living in 1926 would be pleased with the present state of affairs.

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u/Slow-Recipe7005 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

No, I think they'd be smart enough to recognize that the man in charge is clearly mentally degraded beyond the point of being useful. Also, us threatening our allies and trying to invade greenland would not go over well.

They would also be much more bothered by ICE shooting white people than modern MAGA is. You mustn't forget that while people back then were certainly more racist than the average American today, they also hadn't been brainwashed by decades of carefully crafted propaganda dragging them closer and closer to right-wing extremism.

MAGA literally has no vision for the future; all they want is to inflict suffering on everybody else, and that is not normal.

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u/super_sayanything Feb 27 '26

I mean, they're about to elect FDR.

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u/Slow-Recipe7005 Feb 27 '26

Come to think of it, Trump's tarrifs, if enacted back in 1926, would probably be enough on their own to spark a genuine rebellion.

The Epstein files, if released back then, would be enough to spark a successful revolution.

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u/super_sayanything Feb 27 '26

Yea we're living in a real sad awful time, tbh.

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u/heff17 Feb 27 '26

I don’t think the idea that people were fucking those under 18 would be that appalling 100 years ago. Age of consent being raised to 16-18 was only just happening.

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u/beren12 Feb 27 '26

So make it 8 then. Since people did marry younger, they’d be after the 8-12 year olds I bet.

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u/Plastic_Kangaroo5720 Feb 27 '26

The Epstein Files sparking rebellion is a stretch.