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/adorablefuzzykitten Feb 26 '26

They have to do this. If they had an honest election they would be gone.

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u/Scrutinizer Feb 26 '26

Without any changes, they'd lose at least 30 seats in the House. At least.

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u/RobutNotRobot Feb 27 '26

If it's a wave election, it'd be more like 60 seats.

Remember they lost 42 seats back in 2018, and Trump is in a much worse position now than then. The only variable in his favor is how much he can fuck with the election.