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Why no mention of the Jan. 6 coup attempt? Not violent enough?
June 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The district court's opinion partially & temporarily blocking key parts of Trump's executive order on elections is careful, persuasive, and seems very likely to be upheld on appeal, even before this Supreme Court. The key point: Presidents don't have authority to regulate federal elections:
But the defendants’ threshold arguments falter with respect to the plaintiffs’ challenges to Sections 2(a) and 2(d). And on the merits, the plaintiffs are substantially likely to prevail: Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States—not the President—with the authority to regulate federal elections. Consistent with that allocation of power, Congress is currently debating legislation that would effect many of the changes the President purports to order. See Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, H.R. 22, 119th Cong. (2025). And no statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order.
April 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM