“No, He Doesn’t,” Say Experts as Trump Claims He Has the Right to Stop Mail-In Voting With Executive Order

“No, He Doesn’t,” Say Experts as Trump Claims He Has the Right to Stop Mail-In Voting With Executive Order

President Donald Trump ramped up his baseless attacks on mail-in voting late Monday by threatening to issue an executive order curbing the practice ahead of the November elections, a move rights groups and experts said would be a flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution.

“I have the right to do it,” Trump said during a Covid-19 press briefing Monday evening. “We haven’t gotten there yet, but we’ll see what happens.”

“No, he doesn’t,” responded attorney Daniel Jacobson. “As the Supreme Court has explained: ‘the Framers of the Constitution intended the States to keep for themselves, as provided in the Tenth Amendment, the power to regulate elections.'”

Steve Vladeck, a professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin, also weighed in:

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