Mr. President, the Constitution entrusts our states, and, in the case of certain core rules of conduct, Congress, with the authority to regulate elections, not the executive. The executive order President Trump has signed flips that framework and purports to vest the president with expansive new powers that he does not have. not just him, but any chief executive. And it attempts to enact through executive fiat what the Trump administration seemingly believes it cannot achieve through the legislative process through an … (04:06–04:20)
CLAIM
Asserts that Trump's executive order improperly expands presidential powers over elections.
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