An unfortunate reality now confronts Americans who value the rule of law: The court system has limited capability to act as a guardrail against Trumpist authoritarianism. And so elections matter'vitally. The final and most powerful check on Donald Trump has always been, and will always be, the ballot box. The president knows this, and that is why he has now turned his attention to the election system. His recent executive order on election 'integrity' is nothing less than an attempt to disenfranchise his opponents and forestall electoral defeat. Some of that effort is rather technical in nature, but the fundamentals of Trump's challenge to free and fair elections are easy to understand. This is an attempt to completely rework the constitutional rules that structure the American election system. The Constitution established a decentralized election system that was intended to be difficult, if not impossible, for a single actor to subvert. To that end, the Constitution gives the...
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