Breaking from Ron FIlipkowski: Trump will steal midterms with an unconstitutional order Update: He did it!

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The scoop comes from Daily Caller, so I won't link it here. Apparently, according to Ron "With new polls showing a Doomsday Scenario for Republicans int the midterms, Trump escalates efforts to try and steal the midterms with an unconstitutional and illegal order."

He will sign an executive order at 5 pm cracking down on mail-in voting across the country, Daily Caller has learned.

I don't know if DC is accurate, but I don't doubt that trump would try this.

Edited to add that he did it. Guess the Daily Caller was accurate this time.

[mwmisses4289]

1. But it's ok for him to vote by mail?

[senseandsensibility]

2. Of course it is

because he's "busy" (golfing and planning ballrooms with taxpayer money). Jeez.

[niyad]

3. Well, he is iimportant, you know.

[Wiz Imp]

4. I wouldn't believe anything from the Daily Caller

Regardless, he may try to do something like that but it won't work. States can safely ignore it

[senseandsensibility]

5. He's bloviating about signing it right now

The press is politely questioning him as usual.

[Bread and Circuses]

6. I expect the Red States will use the ' executive order ' , which he likes authority to issue.

That will give republicans cover to deny the vote to people. I wonder if Republican counties in Blue States will do the same. Or if Blue state governors can stop it ? I don’t know. I think we need to watch this closely,

Thanks

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Democracy Docket-Trump signs sweeping order attacking mail-in voting

This executive order will be struck down

Link to tweet

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-signs-sweeping-order-attacking-mail-in-voting/

Under the Constitution, states run elections and only Congress can set national standards.

“This is a massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort aimed at giving Trump the power to create a list of who is allowed to vote by mail,” Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, said Tuesday. “We know where this will go — the targeting of Democrats for mass disenfranchisement. We will sue and we will win.”

Legal challenges to the new order are expected swiftly.

“It’s obvious the president didn’t learn anything from his first failed executive order,” David Becker, a leading election law expert, told Democracy Docket. “This is unconstitutional on its face. The Constitution clearly gives the president no power over elections.”

Becker said he expects courts to move quickly to block the order, as they did with earlier attempts.

“I expect that this will be blocked by multiple federal courts in a very short period of time and have no legal effect whatsoever,” he said.

He also pointed to contradictions between the administration’s recent legal arguments and the apparent scope of the new order, particularly around the creation of a national voter list.

“After the Department of Justice has been telling courts they’re not creating a national voter list, this appears to confirm exactly what courts were concerned about,” Becker said.