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Trump wipes out entire election agency —and nobody's sure what happens next
Trump Didn’t Just Fire Commissioners. He Took Aim at the Machinery Around Elections.The Power Was the PointThe source article is about a firing spree, but the political meaning is simpler: Donald Trump used presidential power to shut down the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration. This was not an administrative cleanup or a personnel dispute. It was a direct move against a bipartisan institution that exists to support how elections function.The actual power sat where it always sat: in the White House, backed by a Supreme Court willing to widen presidential removal…
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