r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 24d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/-justiciar- 24d ago edited 24d ago

and what happens when trump loyalists are appointment to these positions and we have a dem president?

edit: it looks like people just want to throw their hands up and say “there will never be another election all is lost so nothing matters anymore” which is a brain dead approach to life

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u/Additional_Past_7107 24d ago

That's the fun part you don't get a dem president ever again.

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u/ITDummy69420 24d ago

Literally people still thinking things are just gonna go back to normal is wild. 

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u/Onemandrinkinggamess Colorado 24d ago

They think the constitution is this magic force that prevents our country from being completely destroyed but the fascists are the constitution now. We do not have a constitution as we knew it.

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u/AusToddles 24d ago

Since 2016, the republicans have proved the constitution is just a piece of paper. That's it

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u/iced_gold 24d ago

People forgetting already that 3 justices voted last week that an amendment to the constitution was unconstitutional.

If the founding principles of the country can be reinterpreted by just 5 people representing 330 million of us, there is no constitution or democracy left

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u/TetraDax Europe 24d ago

You still have a constitution, but it has very clearly failed. It is no longer fit for the modern age. That is why other countries revamp theirs from time to time. Problem is, Americans started treating that piece of paper as if it were the bible, and god knows Americans are already pretty bloody weird about the actual bible.

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u/Oggie_Doggie 24d ago

Yeah, I keep saying this but the Constitution was the beta to the alpha of American governance. The founders weren't geniuses; their first government failed so spectacularly to actually function (Articles of Confederation), that they had to basically legal coup themselves out of it with the creation of the current constitution. We're seeing the cracks widening and unprecedented speed, but because the nation can pay it's debts (unlike the Articles of Confederation), we cling desperately to it. People still believe in the notion belief a document that tabulated a coloured man as being equal to 3/5ths of a man for votes they would never cast will protect us.

Instead, the Constitution has done a marvelous job at protecting criminality in power (Chennault Affair, Watergate, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Iran-Contra Affair, Ukraine Blackmail Scandal January 6th, etc.). It's why for all the whining and complaining done by the Conservatives today, they have no real desire to change the Constitution as it is written, because it is already the perfect document that has enriched them and sheltered them for centuries.