Post B3kYnJsPwRUP0z6CnI by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #B3kYRlHhMMI1eDe14q by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-02-27T14:52:01Z
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#GiftArticle#Trump, seeking executive #power over #elections, is urged to declare “emergency”
“Activists” who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft #ExecutiveOrder that would exert extraordinary presidential #power over #voting.#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #Federalism #states #VotingRights #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism #tyranny https://wapo.st/3N5cpEn
(DIR) Post #B3kYnJsPwRUP0z6CnI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-02-27T14:55:55Z
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Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-pg draft #ExecutiveOrder that claims #China interfered in the #2020election [it didn’t] as a basis to declare a national “emergency” that would unlock extraordinary presidential #power over #voting.
#Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID & ban #mail #ballots in November’s #MidtermElections, & the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised EO on the issue.#law
(DIR) Post #B3kZ6xAw3QQEOq7g7U by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-02-27T14:59:28Z
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“Under the #Constitution, it’s the #legislatures & #states that really control how a state conducts its elections, & the president doesn’t have any power to do that,” said Peter Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who is advocating for the draft #ExecutiveOrder. Ticktin attended the New York Military Academy with #Trump & was part of his legal team that filed an unsuccessful 2022 lawsuit accusing Democrats of conspiring to damage him with allegations that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.#law
(DIR) Post #B3kZHOKBy7GLUuQhsG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-02-27T15:01:21Z
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“But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin went on. “That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”The “emergency” would empower the president to ban mail ballots & #VotingMachines as the vectors of foreign interference, Ticktin argued.#law #Constitution #Federalism #states #VotingRights #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism
(DIR) Post #B3kZWRmTOvG0YnpxzM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-02-27T15:04:04Z
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The idea of claiming “emergency” #ExecutivePowers based on *allegations* of foreign interference attaches new significance to the admin’s actions to reinvestigate the #2020election. #Trump has never accepted defeat, while never finding evidence of widespread fraud. DNI #TulsiGabbard [Russian propagandist] is leading a “review” of election security that officials said focuses on foreign influence.
#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #states #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism
(DIR) Post #B3kZXmoSgpAI50PE6y by capnthommo@c.im
2026-02-27T15:04:17Z
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@Nonilex "vote for me this once and you'll never have to [get to] vote again"
(DIR) Post #B3ka1vvrLgbr3BF1cm by SuneAuken@mastodon.world
2026-02-27T15:09:43Z
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@Nonilex "The two activists, known by their fellows as "Astro" and "Turf", spoke under conditions of strict anonymity and a large payday."
(DIR) Post #B3kaJ42eS1437maRea by deadinside@but.still.drinkin.coffee
2026-02-27T15:10:23Z
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@Nonilex Huh, doesn't that sound oddly familiar to what Putin pulled back in the day?
(DIR) Post #B4KOKIEAzOlReSM1uS by ermo@fosstodon.org
2026-03-16T21:48:09Z
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@Nonilex Who's really pulling the strings here?From my uneducated perspective, I don't see how anyone in their right mind would want that guy in the pound seat, unless there's an upside to balance the obvious bat-shit cra-SQUIRREL! downside.So what *is* the upside? Buy-a-POTUS? Buy-a-pardon? Buy-a-SCOTUS? Buy-a-Congress?Short term, I can see how this represents obvious utility for crooks in suits. But long term? Dog help the society that goes down this route.See also: Putin's Russia.
(DIR) Post #B4KPFzGfdh9Ne221uS by GeePawHill@mastodon.social
2026-03-16T21:58:37Z
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@Nonilex Cannot *wait* to see how John Roberts finds the language that invalidates I.4.1. It may be his greatest imaginative work of his career.
(DIR) Post #B4KPQzVT5mDfZQCTey by apropos
2026-03-16T22:00:41.177057Z
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@GeePawHill @Nonilex John Roberts threw Trump under the bus after 2020 over the BLM riots. You think he's interested in tying himself to Trump in any way at all, now? Trump's political capital is in trillions in the red.