Putin’s sock puppet issues unconstitutional order to change state voting laws
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President Donald Trump pledged Monday that he will try to eliminate mail-in voting, after telling Fox News that authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with him on the subject during their meeting last week.
Despite lacking any sort of constitutional power on the matter, Trump declared in a Truth Social post that he would sign an executive order to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections,” and attempt to strip states of their independent authority to oversee elections, and is demanding they just do what he tells them to.
“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES,” the president wrote, referencing conservatives’ disproven claims and conspiracies regarding voter fraud in the 2020 election, which he lost.
“Remember, the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do,” he added. “ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING…THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!”
Of course, the president does not have the power to unilaterally strip states of their constitutionally guaranteed right to conduct and oversee elections, and any executive order purporting to do so will likely face immediate court challenges.
I assume the real point here is to have a pretext to declare every election that results in a Republican losing a fraud. But Trump trying to executive the order, lower courts enjoining the administration, and the Supreme Court vacating the order and then refusing to take further action — hey, worth a try.