Trump Is Already Undermining the Next Election

[Celerity]

And the one after that, and the one after that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-election-rules-changes/682394/

https://archive.ph/mnNNt



An unfortunate reality now confronts Americans who value the rule of law: The court system has limited capability to act as a guardrail against Trumpist authoritarianism. And so elections matter—vitally. The final and most powerful check on Donald Trump has always been, and will always be, the ballot box.

The president knows this, and that is why he has now turned his attention to the election system. His recent executive order on election “integrity” is nothing less than an attempt to disenfranchise his opponents and forestall electoral defeat.

Some of that effort is rather technical in nature, but the fundamentals of Trump’s challenge to free and fair elections are easy to understand. This is an attempt to completely rework the constitutional rules that structure the American election system.

The Constitution established a decentralized election system that was intended to be difficult, if not impossible, for a single actor to subvert. To that end, the Constitution gives the states most of the authority over the conduct of elections. Article I, Section 4 provides that “the Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof”—creating 50 independent and separate election systems.

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[CrispyQ]

1. We're three months in. Hard to see how the country will survive until the midterms if it keeps going like this.

SMDH that major law firms are capitulating to the orange turd.

[J_William_Ryan]

2. The Constitution is clear that presidents play no role whatsoever concerning elections.

Elections are the sole purview of the states with Congress authorized to enact regulatory legislation.

As a fascist thug, of course, Trump cares nothing about the Constitution.