Marc Elias
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622 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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So I think we're actually, I think him being unpopular actually is much more dangerous to the midterm elections than if he was moderately unpopular like he's normally, but he would then be like, oh, but I'll just gin up my base and I'll go to rallies.
I think that once he loses faith in that as a tool, he doesn't moderate, he actually just looks for a more authoritarian tool.
Yeah, so look, this is a very dangerous inflection point in our democracy.
Donald Trump in 2025 issued an executive order last year saying that he was going to change some of the rules related to voter registration.
And I represented the Democratic Party and we sued and we won.
And the outcome of that was a federal district court order in which the judge said in very plain terms that the president of the United States plays no role.
Okay, that's the ruling of the court, no role in regulating federal elections.
And by the way, that accords with the constitution, which says that states set the time, place and manner of elections subject only to Congress's legislative override.
And there is nothing in any part of the constitution that gives the president any role
in this area.
We thought that maybe that was the end of it.
You know, he had taken his shot and he had lost, but no, he came back now with a new executive order, which even Republicans, you know, not on the record, but Republicans are whispering is just bonkers.
I mean, it's just fucking nuts.
I mean, he is essentially saying that he is going to have the Department of Homeland Security create a master list of all eligible U.S.
citizens to vote and
and that he will send these to the states, and the states may only send absentee ballots to the people on the list that his DHS provides them.
I mean, and then the postal service is going to ban the postal service from carrying mail-in ballots under certain circumstances.
He doesn't have the power to do any of those things, none of them.
But he is doing it because if he can create the master list of who can vote and who can't vote, you know, Jessica, I have a feeling I know which list you and I are going to wind up on.
I think I have a pretty good idea of what list a whole lot of Democrats are going to wind up on.
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