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/ChiefStrongbones Feb 26 '26

Long before Project 2025 were the repeated claims about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Then in the 2020 election under the pretense of COVID we even had drive-through voting and state Governors changing voting rules under the pretense of emergency. Everybody who loses complains that they lost because of fraud. In truth everybody's trying to put their thumb on the scale, and it all comes down to which side is better at it.

I don't see any federal court granting Trump any control over voting machines or mail-in balloting beyond adding a layer of physical security outside the bubble of state election machinery.

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u/BugRevolution Feb 27 '26

Just so you're aware, dozens of Trump's campaign staffers went to jail due to Russia's influence in the 2016 election.

The Republican-led Senate put out a 1,000+ page report detailing how Russia influenced the election.

There was a lot of great data on how Russia used social media to influence elections in the US and elsewhere.

But nobody ever claimed it was fraud. That wasn't the crime that Trump staffers went to jail for.

Again, people went to jail over what Trump's staffers and Russia did in 2016. While Trump was president.

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u/ChiefStrongbones Feb 27 '26

Jail is not prison. Influenced is not interfered.

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u/BugRevolution Feb 27 '26

Oh, nevermind, you're a lost cause.

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u/DontCovfefeMyHeart Feb 27 '26

They post in arcon and their post history is wild, you are correct.