Aisha Bakshi

The Constitution specifically authorizes states, not the federal government,

to set locations and processes around those elections.

Now, the Constitution does also include language that authorizes Congress to regulate certain areas of what states are doing in that space.

So Congress does have some power here, but nowhere does the Constitution say the president

has the authority to be regulating those elections.

So there's no question that if this ended up getting some legs, there'll be plenty of lawyers out there who are ready to challenge the administration.

It's also not quite clear what Trump is...

proposing here or potentially laying the groundwork for?

Is he going to try himself through executive action to try to do something to nationalize elections or elections in certain states that he wants to have more control over?

Is he trying to push Congress to do something?

You know, in the space of Congress, there could be a broader argument about whether Congress has legal authority and what that legal authority looks like.

But certainly in terms of the president doing it unilaterally,

It doesn't look like the U.S.

Constitution authorizes that.

Glad to be here.