Lawyer Who Helped Trump Try To Overturn Election Says He May Use 'Emergency Powers' To Take Control of Elections

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 8th, 2025, 7:41 pm


A lawyer who helped President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election claimed the president can “exercise some emergency powers” to wield authority over elections, which are a state matter.

After the 2020 election, Cleta Mitchell, then a partner at Foley & Lardner, participated in the infamous phone call in which Trump tried to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, which was one more than Trump’s margin of defeat in the state. Raffensperger denied Trump’s baseless claims of fraud. Mitchell later alleged that Raffensperger was “simply not correct.”

After the call became public, Mitchell resigned from Foley & Lardner. Last week, she appeared on Washington Watch, where she vaguely claimed that Trump could invoke emergency powers to take control of elections.

“The president’s authority is limited,” Mitchell said. “The chief executive is limited in his role with regard to elections, except that where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States, as I think that we can establish with the porous system that we have, then I think maybe the president is thinking that he will exercise some emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward.”

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Link to 65 Project ETHICS COMPLAINT (PDF viewer) - Ethics Complaint Against Trump Attorney Cleta Mitchell

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This is another one that needs to be disbarred. An ethics complaint had been filed in 2022

[MaineBlueBear]

1. May...

[BumRushDaShow]

2. He's been claiming "emergency powers" for everything else so far

Deporting people without due process (Alien Enemies Act)

Tariffs (The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA))

And he's itching to instigate something in order to declare martial law (with this mess in L.A., D.C., Boston, and Chicago, etc) and then go from there.

And "Daddy Roberts" has been helping him along with every step.

[Lovie777]

3. I could be wrong, but I don't think shithole has the military in his pocket................

to physically attack fellow Americans with such a weak reason for Martial Law.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

5. I tend to agree

He’s fired most of the competent leaders who still command real respect from their former troops and officers. Fat Boy may find out that if he tries to play that game he’s the one who will be staring down the barrel of an M4.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They'll just start with the National Guard

which is what they are doing in L.A. and D.C. as "test cases". Their "excuse" would be "to protect government buildings".

Then ICE will be bolder and will be knocking down doors, busting into schools and churches, and dragging people out in front of cameras wielded by the gleeful media ready to broadcast this next chapter of 45's brutal reality show, and that will rile up people even more.

They want to spark a "riot" so they can make the same mistake that a former South Korean President did - South Korea's president removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law

and that a NOW-FORMER Nepalese Prime Minister JUST DID TODAY with a violent reaction to a mass protest - Nepal's prime minister resigns as protesters defy curfew to set fire to leaders' homes

[thesquanderer]

12. Well, he's already sending National Guard to where they're not wanted or needed. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

26. If he can stop the blue cities from voting, he has the elections in the bag.

[Javaman]

4. if we have midterms, it will probably be one of the most fucked up elections since the hay market riots. nt

[MayReasonRule]

13. The Haymarket Affair advocated for an 8 hour work day leading to four unlawful executions

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[Javaman]

25. don't get me wrong, I agree but the elections where totally fucked up. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Provoking a war with A South American...

Country **cough** **Venezuela** **cough**

Should do the trick.

He's already got Hogsbreath on the case off the shores of Puerto Rico.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Once Trump got immunity in July 2024, Democrats had this option

if they had thought of it. No telling how it would have played, but it was there.

[Bengus81]

11. The Extreme Court knew they had zero worries of Biden exploiting it

But Trump just might get re-elected so on they went with it. Get a Dem back in the WH and they'll be revisiting that law in a big fucking hurry.

[Escurumbele]

17. But it was not a question of expoliting it, it was a question of saving the country, Biden should have done

something to prevent this buffoon from taking office again, that would fall into "defending the country from domestic enemy".

Now, why isn't that lawyer being barred for participating in that call?

[kerouac2]

9. They always do whatever they want claiming a threat...

These wimps apparently feel threatened by everything and everyone. And think it gives them the right to do whatever they want.

[truthisfreedom]

10. "Protect"? She means control or disrupt.

Nothing this asshole does is to protect anything but project 2025.

[travelingthrulife]

14. Another emergency???

Where are our fucking courts???

[liberalgunwilltravel]

15. We can't rely

On the Courts, Congress, not the media, not the elite institutions, or anyone else. We can only rely on ourselves. No one else is going to stop this rapid march toward fascism. And most unfortunately, we’re headed for terribly violent times in the not too distant future.

[popsdenver]

19. Agreed !

WASF

Since Trump first got "Installed" in his first term, I was frightened at what we were watching go on behind the scenes........

Quite honestly....... we have absolutely NO IDEA, how DEEPLY the MAGAots have infiltrated the members of the U.S. Military, National Guard, State and Local LEO's, Secret Service, FBI, Appellate Courts, Border Patrol, ICE, Dept of Homeland Security, etc etc etc.........

[Irish_Dem]

27. US courts work for the Putin/Trump Crime Syndicate.

[bluestarone]

16. Shit, who needs emergency powers, when you got

The Supreme court in your pocket? What's anybody gonna do when they rule TSF's boys won the election? Without reasons.

[MissMillie]

18. "...with the porous system that we have..."

This claim of a "porous system" has been debunked numerous times.

[Karasu]

22. Republicans couldn't care less about that fact. It's just an excuse for them to do whatever they want to do, anyhow.

[MissMillie]

28. Of course

The fake elector scheme of 1/6/21 made this perfectly clear.

[republianmushroom]

20. Well is seems trumpy does have 6

very close allies sitting in the SCOUS who seem willing to over turn the Constitution.

[Marie Marie]

21. Poor Marc Elias - he's gonna be sooo busy. Fortunately, he usually wins.

[Karasu]

23. Been expecting this. We should have been attacking these bullshit emergency declarations from the start. They are the

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basis for practically ALL of his executive orders.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. There are multiple cases that were filed (by states, businesses, individuals, orgs) that HAVE "attacked" that

and the lower courts have agreed and halted the overreach.

But then 45 runs to "Daddy Roberts" and Roberts overturns the lower courts and lets the country continue to be carpet-bombed to rubble.