Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power.
“We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,” he said during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We’re going to start with an executive order that’s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots.”
Doesn’t the state run their own policing too?
How’d that work for DC?
Edit: I actually didn’t know any of that, I don’t live in the states. Glad to see there’s a legitimate legal process for the president to take advantage of his subordinates
DC isn’t a state, which is a different level of fuckery.
A better comparison is LA
Even then, he activated the National Guard, which is a Constitutional power.
DC isn’t a state on purpose. The federal government through Congress has full control of the district.
DC was set up specifically to be under federal control because reasons. They’ve let the city do its own things for a little while, but ultimately the Fed has legal control.