Since taking office, Trump has installed loyalists who follow his orders into key positions at the #DepartmentofJustice, issued executive orders centralizing decision-making within the #WhiteHouse, attempted to UNILATERALLY CHANGE STATE and LOCAL #ElectionLaws www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Donald Trump Has A Plan To Dis...
How Trump Is Plotting To Disrupt The Next Election

This time the call is coming from inside the White House — and that should scare you more than anything.

HuffPost

#LaraTrump claims that the #Democrats are promoting and defending various #electionLaws because they want to make it easier to cheat. But history establishes that in virtually every case of fraud, it's the #Republicans who are #cheating. This is #gaslighting, pure and simple, from a woman whose judgement led her to marry #EricTrump—known by all to be the dumbest #Trump.

#TrumpLies #TrumpIsALiar #TrumpIsATraitor #TrumpCult #NoElectionFraud #PartyOfStupid #VoteBlue2024

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lara-trump-misses-the-point-about-how-elections-work-during-fox-news-interview

Lara Trump Misses the Point About How Elections Work During Fox News Interview

The new RNC co-chair really has a problem with votes being counted after election day.

The Daily Beast

#Trump Says #HushMoney #Trial Shouldn’t Be About #ElectionInterference

Trump asked to block prosecutors from arguing at his upcoming #criminal trial that he tried to influence the 2016 election by paying to silence a porn star.
He also argued to bar #StormyDaniels from testifying as a govt #witness.
If successful, jurors will hear a narrative that hardly resembles the original case alleging Trump violated #ElectionLaws.

#law
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/trump-says-da-s-hush-money-case-shouldn-t-be-about-2016-election

Trump Says Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Shouldn't Be About 2016 Election

Donald Trump says Manhattan prosecutors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial shouldn’t be allowed to argue he tried to influence the 2016 election or call as witnesses the two adult entertainment stars who say he paid them off for their silence.

Bloomberg

Recording shows #RNC chair & #PresidentTrump personally pressuring #Michigan #election canvassers not to certify 2020 vote and offering them something " of value" in exchange for withholding signatures, which is a clear #bribe in violation of #ElectionLaws...

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/donald-trump-recorded-pressuring-wayne-canvassers-not-to-certify-2020-vote-michigan/72004514007/

Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote

Trump pressured two canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News.

The Detroit News

Close to 100,000 #Voter Registrations Were #Challenged in #Georgia — Almost All by Just Six #RightWing Activists

The recent transformation of the state’s #ElectionLaws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that #election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash w/federal #law.

by Doug Bock Clark
photography by Cheney Orr
@ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-activists-georgia-voter-challenges

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists

The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.

ProPublica

A majority of the judges in #Brazil’s electoral court ruled that #Bolsonaro had violated #ElectionLaws when, < 3 mos before last yr’s vote, he summoned diplomats to the presidential palace & made baseless claims that the nation’s voting systems were likely to be #rigged.

#BanTrump #BigLie #democracy #ElectionIntegrity #RightWing #Gaslighting #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-banned-office.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Blocked From Office for Election-Fraud Claims

Brazil’s electoral court banned former President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking office until 2030 for spreading false claims about the nation’s voting system.

The New York Times

Hard to be hopeful most of the time, but something.

https://wapo.st/3PyiOa0

#uspol #politics #conservatives #elections #ElectionLaws

The odds of a Trump coup attempt in 2024 are dropping fast

A Supreme Court ruling is combining with other big developments to shore up our system.

The Washington Post
Read the full Moore v. Harper Supreme Court decision

The Supreme Court maintained the power of state courts to review election laws under state constitutions.

POLITICO
New SCOTUS Ruling Limits State Court Interference With Elec Laws

In Moore v. Harper, SCOTUS held that the U.S. Constitution’s Elections Clause ā€˜does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elections.’

CHAUNCEY I. BROWN III (American Patriot)
Supreme Court hands defeat to North Carolina GOP in election law clash

A 6-3 decision from the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid to give state legislatures sweeping authority in drawing congressional maps and regulating federal elections, declining to endorse the so-called ā€œindependent state legislatureā€ theory. The majority opinion, which united the court’s three liberals with Chief Justice John Roberts and two conservative justices, preserves the…

The Hill