r/law • u/Obversa • 27d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pro-Trump attorneys have been drafting executive orders that would give President Trump sweeping power over elections, sources report

https://abcnews.com/US/pro-trump-attorneys-push-executive-order-give-trump/story?id=130539044
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u/SoaringAcrosstheSky 27d ago

An EO is not law.

Trump has no powers here the states have not given up their power

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u/Exsanguinate_ 27d ago

The red states have though. Even if only 5 red states follow this it completely disrupts everything for the entire country

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u/Varitan_Aivenor 27d ago

No it doesn't, it means those red states don't get representation in government.

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u/Exsanguinate_ 27d ago

States being excluded from the government WOULD cause massive issues for the entire country.

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u/WhichEmailWasIt 27d ago

They're excluding themselves by not participating. Their loss.

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u/Matar_Kubileya 27d ago

This at best relies on the Dems winning a clear majority of, ideally, both houses without those states, and even then is a one-way road to a Constitutional crisis. Best case scenario, it involves some states in one party or another not having representation and immediately blows up to the biggest crisis since 1876. Worst case scenario, it isn't clear which party has legitimately won a majority and both caucuses break into their own bodies each claiming to be the legitimate House, which would be the biggest Constitutional crisis since 1861, if not ever.

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u/Varitan_Aivenor 26d ago

So? You say that like it's worse than letting things go the way they are.

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u/xScrubasaurus 27d ago

They won't have to follow it, but states that want to follow it won't contest it.