Jamie Raskin
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Obviously, we can't count on the three
justices who are basically acting like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel at this point.
But let's hope that that sixth justice pro-Constitution majority that we saw in the tariffs case will stand by the Constitution when it comes to electoral federalism and the power of the states to run their own elections without unilateral, unlawful interference by the president of the United States.
He simply has no role in it.
He's out of it.
Mistakes are high because, look, in the big picture, what's happening is that we don't have meaningful, aggressive antitrust enforcement based on the law.
What we have is competing teams of lobbyists who are trying to see essentially who can satisfy the pay-to-play expectations of the Trump administration.
And we've got to get back to the rule of law generally in America, and certainly with respect to antitrust jurisprudence.
Donald Trump is presiding over an extraordinary consolidation of corporate power.
And it's the corporations who are willing to play by his rules, pay him off when he sues them, sing his tune.
that are the ones that are ending up on top.
That is not how a free market economy should work.
It should not be up to the president to anoint and appoint victors and losers.
But that's what we've gotten into.
So we need to restore meaningful antitrust law enforcement for the sake of consumers, for the sake of democracy.
And that means we've got to get rid of Donald Trump's pay-to-play system of graft and corruption.
So thank you, Diane, and thank you for everything you've done.
I mean, we're in that fight right now, like in North Carolina, right now in Texas.
So I don't want people to think about a stolen election as something that's going to happen in November.
They're trying to stack the rules and change the rules right now all over the country, and people are fighting all