Trump Is Already Undermining the Next Election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Using its constitutional authority, Congress might, if it chooses, pass the SAVE Act.
54% : The legal theory undergirding this assertion -- that the president's authority to enforce federal law enables him to control state election activity -- is as capacious as it is frightening.
52% : This is the authority Congress has used to mandate certain changes to state practices under the Civil Rights Act, for example.
50% : In other words, the SAVE Act would do legislatively exactly what the Trump order attempts to do by the might of the executive branch.
46% : The first and most obvious is that Trump has little, if any, formal authority to order the Election Assistance Commission to do anything.
44% : America does not need Donald Trump, of all people, to have such power.
35% : The final and most powerful check on Donald Trump has always been, and will always be, the ballot box.
33% : Of course, that hasn't stopped Trump yet.
25% : Read: Trump says he is serious about staying in office past 2028
21% : In short, the theoretical legal underpinnings of Trump's executive order portend a near-limitless authority to use federal resources to ensure that Trump and other MAGA Republicans never lose another election.

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