Democrats finally sue Trump for trying to control elections
Democrats finally sue Trump for trying to control elections
The Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit against one of Trump’s most dangerous executive orders.
Summary
The Democratic National Committee and two other party committees have sued Trump over Executive Order 14215, which claims authority to seize control of the Federal Elections Commission.
The lawsuit argues this violates federal law and threatens free elections.
The order also claims power over other agencies including the SEC, FTC, and NLRB.
Democrats contend this executive overreach contradicts constitutional principles and a century of Supreme Court precedent upholding Congress's authority to insulate certain agencies from presidential control.
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How many years did I have to put up with hearing about checks and balances, because that was a damn lie.
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Right? All you needed was one bully and his friends who don't care about rules to simply do what they want and fuck everything up.
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All systems of government are like that. I'm not saying ours is perfect. It is far from it. However, all forms of government rely on specific people following a set of rules that a (usually) different group of people came up with. Once enough people ignore the rules there's no way to fix the problem by attempting to enforce the rules that aren't being followed. That's what we're seeing now.
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True, although the number of people that you need to break the rules before the system of government falls apart varies from system to system. In this case my impression is that the US requires relatively few people (once in power) to make those kinds of decisions.
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Just stuff the Supreme Court judges with your allies and you're pretty much set.
I just don't understand how everyone else is just complying with Doge blindly instead of just saying no. That's what baffles me the most.
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Well, you see, they're in on it.
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I don't know man... I feel like there should be more resistance.
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There should be, but we just spent the last 50 years going down corruption lane. We should have burned down Citizens United when they first tried to buy an election. We should have instated anti corruption laws to keep corporations and political action committees out. Its too late now. There is going to be strife, and more if the people dont pull those two monstrosities out of office.
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Well and like 200 cucks in the Senate and house to not bother checking you.
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"And his friends" is the crucial part here. The reason this didn't happen in his first term was a massive amount of institutional pushback. GOP spent the intervening time clearing out those pesky roadblocks, and figured out where they wanted Trump aimed.
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Turns out when about 70% of everything is just tradition without any laws to prevent people from breaking the assumed laws in place, it's all been a sham and anyone could have broken them for bettering the country instead of tearing it apart.
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Common law like in the USA has inherent weaknesses.
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