"Put simply, this is total bullshit."

[sop]

'Trump, Elections and the Opposition's Strategic Depth'

"President Trump has a new post up on Truth Social today in which he claims that states only run elections and count ballots as agents acting at his direction as president of the United States. The key lines are '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, tell them …' He claims he’s going to issue an executive order to ban voting by mail and any voting machines he doesn’t like."

"Put simply, this is total bullshit."

"The president has basically nothing to do with election administration. States run American elections. Period. Congress, within certain parameters, can make laws with standards that states must apply. But states still administer them. This is a foundational, constitutionally-mandated and structural feature of the American republic. Trump’s claims are so far from anything even remotely legal or constitutional that I doubt even the corrupted federal judiciary will have much truck with it."

"But Trump will definitely try. We already know this. So this is a reminder not only of the established and clearly delineated constitutional role of states in administering federal elections. It’s a reminder of the critical role of the separate sovereignty of the states, a sovereign authority that is separate from the hierarchy of federal power even as its law is inferior to federal law."

Continued at link:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-elections-and-the-oppositions-strategic-depth

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Does no one proofread anything anymore?

"...that I doubt even the corrupted federal judiciary will have much truck with it."

[sop]

2. To "have truck" with something:

"To have truck with something usually means to be involved or associated with it, but the phrase is most commonly used in the negative form, 'have no truck with,' which means to refuse to be involved with, disapprove of, or have no dealings with something or someone. It implies a strong rejection or unwillingness to associate with the matter at hand."

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Link?

[sop]

6. Google is your friend...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/have-no-truck-with

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/have-no-truck-with-something

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/589884/origin-of-the-phrase-to-have-no-truck-with

[littlemissmartypants]

7. I don't use Google.

[sop]

8. Then use your own dictionary.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Why? When you so kindly did the job for everyone? ❤️

[sop]

10. Have you been drinking?

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Are you okay?

[sop]

13. Still can't admit you effed up?

[littlemissmartypants]

15. We can't ALL be perfect.

[Lochloosa]

3. AI spelled truck correctly. Whats the issued?

[littlemissmartypants]

5. pspspspspsps

[Mister Ed]

12. This thread seems to be full of needlessly catty comments this morning.

I think they should be reconsidered.

[Stuckinthebush]

16. I noticed as well

Tuesday mornings, I guess.

[Walleye]

14. Maga says "deep state", they mean US Constitution

[IbogaProject]

17. Ah he knows he is failing and unpopular

Hmm, a hit dog hollars.