Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency
Confidence requires clarity.
The Washington Post is running an “exclusive” story about an effort to get Trump to sign an executive order that would “ban mail ballots and voting machines as the vectors of foreign interference.”
The WaPo story references a "2018 executive order that declared an emergency to impose sanctions on foreign entities targeting election infrastructure" by using IEEPA as authority. But IEEPA actions are limited to "any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest," so I don’t see how that applies to mail ballots or voting machines—unless he’s simply going to lie about it.
At what point will we abandon the ridiculous rule that courts are not allowed to review presidential fact-finding?
UPDATE: Democracy Docket has obtained the legal memo referenced in WaPo story.
Confidence requires clarity.
The Washington Post is running an “exclusive” story about an effort to get Trump to sign an executive order that would “ban mail ballots and voting machines as the vectors of foreign interference.”
The WaPo story references a "2018 executive order that declared an emergency to impose sanctions on foreign entities targeting election infrastructure" by using IEEPA as authority. But IEEPA actions are limited to "any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest," so I don’t see how that applies to mail ballots or voting machines—unless he’s simply going to lie about it.
At what point will we abandon the ridiculous rule that courts are not allowed to review presidential fact-finding?
UPDATE: Democracy Docket has obtained the legal memo referenced in WaPo story.
Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency
Confidence requires clarity.
The Washington Post is running an “exclusive” story about an effort to get Trump to sign an executive order that would “ban mail ballots and voting machines as the vectors of foreign interference.”
The WaPo story references a "2018 executive order that declared an emergency to impose sanctions on foreign entities targeting election infrastructure" by using IEEPA as authority. But IEEPA actions are limited to "any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest," so I don’t see how that applies to mail ballots or voting machines—unless he’s simply going to lie about it.
At what point will we abandon the ridiculous rule that courts are not allowed to review presidential fact-finding?
UPDATE: Democracy Docket has obtained the legal memo referenced in WaPo story.
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