Ben Wittes
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actually make it a criminal violation to put troops, use troops to control access to the polls, and a variety of other factors that reinforce the idea that military forces should not be playing a role in our elections.
So that's sort of part one is laying out the protective umbrella that exists.
But part two is laying out the holes in the fabric and the fact that
You know, you can get around a lot of things with the National Guard and you can declare national emergencies.
And there are a variety of ways that the president, if he's reasonably creative or has people around him who are reasonably creative and really push on the court's
deference to the president on emergency declarations can kind of get a lot of things done anyway.
And so I think there is, you know, reason to be concerned.
And I agree with you that the reasons to be concerned may also be reasons to be excited, which is to say, like, go ahead and freaking try.
it is not our job to point out the go ahead and freaking try thing.
That's, you know, the Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller job.
And also if you do intense voter suppression in one area and it works and it motivates people to vote,
And they're in other areas.
Is that a success and for whom?
Right.
And so, you know, I think it is a really interesting question whether voter suppression essentially always backfires.
Yeah, that's a political science and political motivation question.
There's a level at which you can do it that doesn't backfire.
And, you know, our our job is to say, hey, we want people to vote and we don't want people engaged in election interference using the military for malicious partisan reasons.
Long before the FTC and the independent agencies were toast with respect to the president's ability to fire people who allegedly had some job security issues,
The inspectors general were toast before that.
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