Chaos that the article states aside, overt interference with elections is a slightly different type of crisis than the rest for this admin. If he pretended he could suspend any election it’s putting the states on the offensive in a way that the other unconstitutional stuff doesn’t.
“Prove that the president can’t” becomes “stop us from electing someone else”. It’s obviously not out of the realm of possibility to suppress them by force, but enacting that across multiple states all at once is a tall order.
Voting is a very diffuse process, and states are basically only beholden to their own constitutions. That is to say, they can change their own rules as much as Trump can.
Chaos that the article states aside, overt interference with elections is a slightly different type of crisis than the rest for this admin. If he pretended he could suspend any election it’s putting the states on the offensive in a way that the other unconstitutional stuff doesn’t.
“Prove that the president can’t” becomes “stop us from electing someone else”. It’s obviously not out of the realm of possibility to suppress them by force, but enacting that across multiple states all at once is a tall order.
Voting is a very diffuse process, and states are basically only beholden to their own constitutions. That is to say, they can change their own rules as much as Trump can.