Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
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Politico : “[Trump's] speech [last night] offered a glimpse into how the president could pursue an election-reform agenda even if his preferred method — the SAVE America Act — fails to become law. Throughout the address, the president peppered his remarks with orders to various law enforcement and government agencies, many of which are staffed with controversial loyalists.”
With like-minded allies now positioned in key roles throughout the government, Mr. Trump has trained the full arsenal of the federal government on one of his most persistent obsessions : sowing doubt about the security of the country's election systems.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened local election officials on Friday with prison time if they did not comply with the Trump administration's efforts to change election policies, while reiterating many of President Trump's unsubstantiated claims about the security of American elections….
By: Dan Tokaji
Donald Trump's state department intends to allocate $12m to organisations in the UK founded by the prominent Conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young, the Guardian can reveal.
As President Trump wrapped up a prime-time address in which he rattled off ominous and at times outlandish assertions about U.S. election vulnerabilities, he repeated his demand that Congress pass strict voting restrictions that have been stalled in the Senate.
President Donald Trump's administration spent more than a year scrutinizing the federal agency that oversees U.S. voting systems, questioning its handling of the 2020 presidential election and vetting potential new leaders before he fired its commissioners last week, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and two people familiar with the discussions.
The White House appears to be shielding China from scrutiny in President Donald Trump's push to get to the bottom of what he has declared an official cover-up of Chinese interference in the 2020 presidential election.
WSJ reviews the 269 pages of documents the White House released in connection with the President's speech on Thursday evening.
By: Dan Tokaji
Votebeat reports from the National Association of Secretaries of State conference in Rapid City, South Dakota:
According to Trump and [DHS Secretary Markwayne] Mullin, about 278,000 noncitizens are unlawfully registered to vote in federal elections in a number of states where they said the rolls were reviewed. They said 250,000 of those people were in just four states: Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Their assessment did not include all states….
