Summary

The Democratic National Committee and two other party committees have sued Trump over Executive Order 14215, which claims authority to seize control of the Federal Elections Commission.

The lawsuit argues this violates federal law and threatens free elections.

The order also claims power over other agencies including the SEC, FTC, and NLRB.

Democrats contend this executive overreach contradicts constitutional principles and a century of Supreme Court precedent upholding Congress’s authority to insulate certain agencies from presidential control.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    11 hours ago

    How many years did I have to put up with hearing about checks and balances, because that was a damn lie.

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      11 hours ago

      Right? All you needed was one bully and his friends who don’t care about rules to simply do what they want and fuck everything up.

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        10 hours ago

        All systems of government are like that. I’m not saying ours is perfect. It is far from it. However, all forms of government rely on specific people following a set of rules that a (usually) different group of people came up with. Once enough people ignore the rules there’s no way to fix the problem by attempting to enforce the rules that aren’t being followed. That’s what we’re seeing now.

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          True, although the number of people that you need to break the rules before the system of government falls apart varies from system to system. In this case my impression is that the US requires relatively few people (once in power) to make those kinds of decisions.

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            3 hours ago

            Just stuff the Supreme Court judges with your allies and you’re pretty much set.

            I just don’t understand how everyone else is just complying with Doge blindly instead of just saying no. That’s what baffles me the most.