MAGA Activists Pitch Trump on Chilling "National Emergency" Plot
By: Malcolm Ferguson (The New Republic)
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Pro-Trump activists say they're in close contact about an executive order that would expand the president's powers to intervene in elections.
A group of MAGA activists are working with the White House to convince President Trump to declare a national emergency over allegations of Chinese election interference—a move they say would allow him to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines.
Florida attorney and former Trump boarding school classmate Peter Ticktin told The Washington Post he has had "certain coordination" with the White House regarding the 17-page executive order draft that his group wants Trump to sign.
Ticktin's draft hinges on the debunked claim that China successfully interfered in the 2020 election on behalf of former President Joe Biden. Trump to this day still believes that this election was somehow stolen from him, and now the Chinese government seems to be the next scapegoat.
"Under the Constitution, it's the legislatures and states that really control how a state conducts its elections, and the president doesn't have any power to do that," Ticktin told the Post. "But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes.... That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it."
"The stage is largely being set by the revelations coming out of foreign powers being involved in influencing the 2020 election," said Jerome Corsi, a progenitor of the birtherism claims Trump has made against former President Barack Obama. "If there was a provable foreign intrusion, that would be a national security emergency and the order could be issued under his powers as commander in chief."
While Trump has already signed an executive order requiring proof of citizenship on voter registration forms and revoking funding from states that accept mail-in ballots, a presidential election emergency has never been challenged in the Supreme Court.
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The foul smelling ghost of John Eastman is afoot. Into the breaches patriots!
The courts would overturn it so fast judges would have whiplash.
If it is close to election time SCOTUS will delay and delay until after the election.
With no choice but to let states do as they will, if they do waffle.
Otherwise, this would be so egregious it would be a huge mess. Less than 0.17% of counties hand counted ballots in 2024. Can you imagine how quickly the whole thing could spiral out of control?
Not necessarily. A lower court may support Trump's takeover leaving it up to SCOTUS to either support or violate the Constitution.
It's possible, but less probable. I could see most, if not all, states telling Trump to pound sand given the headache it would take to hand count ballots. Then the recounts... the lawsuits... the marching in the streets on the overreach... Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA! ...shit. sorry I got carried away there... I think all the appellate courts would keep the status quo.