Tony BarkFeb 26

Trump Reportedly Mulling Plan to Declare ‘National Emergency’ Paving Way for Major Power Grab

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Trump Reportedly Mulling 'National Emergency' Over Elections - Pawb.Social

> The Washington Post reported that activists are working with the White House on an executive order to declare a “national emergency” over America’s elections and pave the way for a power grab. > > “Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting,” reported the Post‘s Isaac Arnsdorf. “President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on the issue.” > > Peter Ticktin, a MAGA activist in favor of the executive order, told the Post that “we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” and that “the president has to be able to deal with it,” including by banning mail-in ballots and certain voting machines.

Show threadZaktor
Another article acting like the executive has any power over elections. They portray this as a warning, but all they’re doing is normalizing the idea.
Feb 26 at 10:06pmWeb
Show threadwatsonFeb 26
This is exactly the Project 2025 playbook. Doing things by the law takes time. In that time, they do as they please.
Show threadZaktorFeb 27
How is an executive order going to change anything about how state employees act? EOs matter for systems where federal employees make decisions, they’re not magic.
Show threadwatsonFeb 27
Everything he’s done besides for the budget has been by executive order.
Show threadZaktorFeb 27

Yes, and they’re all carried out by his own employees within the executive. If they didn’t do the thing, he fires them. They may get their jobs back eventually from the courts, but he has very real power over them until then.

Executive orders have zero power over people who can’t be fired by him. He’s got exactly as much power to dictate the jobs of state employees as he has over how I do my own job.

Show threadwatsonFeb 27
I understand that, but they’re going to go for it anyway. You know as well as I do that these red states can’t wait to turn over their elections to Trump. They’re just waiting for the signal. There can be no elections once that happens. I don’t see how the country survives at that point.