On Monday, President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would sign an executive order aimed at getting rid of a mail ballot and voting machines, it seems to be a lot. He seems to have no such authority, and there would certainly be legal challenges.
However, it was a lesson in one way: it clearly showed that the president, elected to lead the National Rights Party, was very little consideration of the rights of the states.
In fact, he seems to almost despise them.
It is difficult to read his comments in a different way, especially since he has missed most of his second term attempt to abandon the rights of states – or at least those who do not like him.
By selling your new step to get rid of voting and voting machines, Trump included this wonderful sentence of sentences.
“Remember that states are only the” agent “of the Federal Government, calculating the voices of the table,” the president wrote the “social” social. “They must do what the Federal Government, as the US president represents, tells them to do for the benefit of our country.”
Trump used to describe states as “agents” of the federal government in this context, but does not issue them as personally obedient to him.
It is a relatively new choice of the Constitution that it is mildly to put it.
As CNN Daniel Dale points out, the Constitution states that “election times, places and way… are determined by the legislature in each state”. Congress has a role in the fact that the Constitution says it can “make or change such rules”. But there is no role for the president.
And a short does not say that the congress should ban voting or voting machines by mail, don’t forget. Instead, he says that the states “must” get rid of them because they tell them – apparently because he was elected president and because he found it “for the sake of the country.”
This is just the latest of the long drastic short statements about power.
He often stated that the Constitution gave him absolute power. Even when he left his office, he stopped part of the Constitution, repeating false statements that in 2020 The election was restrained. Earlier this year, he announced a quote often assigned to Napoleon Bonaparte, stating that his actions could not be illegal until he acted to “save” the country.
But just as stunning as Trump’s statement to power on Monday was his clear statement that states were just his “agents”.
It is very difficult to count when, for decades, conservative orthodoxy is that the federal government should be small and that states should show the way.
When Trump was first elected in 2016, the Republican Party platform allocated the entire chapter to obvious dedication to state rights. He argued that the federal government should not have any authority exceeding the persons listed specifically.
“Every violation of the state sovereignty of federal officials is not just a violation of one unit of government against another; it is an assault of individual American freedoms,” the platform said.
The platform also decided to “bullying of state and municipalities”, apparently reference to the Obama administration.
What were those states and local authorities? According to the platform, these were “issues from voter identification (ID) laws to immigration” and “health care programs”, inter alia.
Now, Trump has taken constitutionally gloomy executive actions aimed at eliminating state authorities in all three of those areas:
However, these are not the only areas where he sought to impose a federal government to states:
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When June He sent troops to Los Angeles in protest at his immigration, he became the first president in 60 years, doing so without the governor’s consent. (California went to court for this.)
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He became the first president this month, the federal police in Washington.
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He sought to break New York Call Pricing without getting funding. (Judge later blocked it.)
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And he has repeatedly threatened to arrest federal funding from states and cities if they do not comply with more conservative social policies on issues such as transgender rights.
However, few of these efforts are arising as much as Trump’s growing attempts to engage in the American electoral system.
Not only did Trump seek to expand the requirements of citizenship and talked about the voting and voting machines to mitigate; As CNN Fredreka Schouten wrote earlier this month, his administration and its allies took many steps to put pressure on the electoral system – often following short false statements about widespread voter fraud.
This caused the fears of Democrats and watchmen about the agreed efforts to reorganize the electoral system in such a way as to benefit the Trump and its party.
It remains to find out how much his new executive order could eventually be made, given that it is unclear how such a thing can convey a legal meeting.
But it is also an area that is very interested in the short theories of the voters of the year. And it’s hard to see him standing up, no matter what the Constitution says about its powers (or its absence).
And if nothing more, Trump finally said how he really felt about the rights of the state.
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