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US Elections
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Courts have threatened to hold the Trump administration in contempt. It's time to follow through | Austin Sarat

The Trump administration repeatedly violates court orders with impunity, and federal judges must enforce contempt penalties to maintain judicial authority rather than allowing courts to become ineffective.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Trump's plans to alter election rules sound alarm bells ahead of the November midterms

The suggestion, in which Trump did not specify which places he was referring to, amounts to an invitation to contradict the Constitution, given that it establishes in Section IV of Article I that in the United States, state laws govern elections, conceived as a decentralized process for which officials of both parties are responsible in the thousands of districts into which the vast map of the country is divided.
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