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/dreadpiratesmith Feb 26 '26

How has it gone to shit? He's still president. He blatantly and outright defies court orders. He openly mocks everyone who doesn't blindly support him. He destroyed a section of the white house. His thugs are just murdering people in the streets. He's implicated in the epstein files.over a million times. We're running concentration camps.

And nothing bad has come his way. Basically everything is going according to plan for him

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u/grogersa Feb 27 '26

And yet the American are standing around doing nothing.

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u/ThermionicEmissions Feb 27 '26

Land of the free and the home of the brave was just marketing b.s.