On February 28, the Democratic Party sued President Trump, and the Federal Election Commission, to obtain a judgment that the Commission cannot be compelled to follow Trump’s February 18 Executive Order. His Order says “the President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees” of the federal government. But the FEC was set up to be independent and to make its own independent judgments about election law.
Here is the Complaint in Democratic National Committee v Trump and FEC, U.S. District Court, D.C., 1:25cv-587.
It would have been appropriate for the Democratic Party to have reached out to any political parties other than the Republican Party, and invited them to join the lawsuit, but apparently that didn’t occur to the Democratic Party’s attorneys.
That last sentence would have required the DNC and Democrat Establishment to view other parties as potential allies rather than enemies to be crushed even at the cost of free and fair elections, and that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon.
one more fascists vs commies event on the short road to USA civil WAR II
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This could be a very interesting case to follow. Precedents set here could impact not just the FEC, but independent agencies in general. Is the FEC somehow special and different from other independent agencies, or are all of them subject to the same rules?
Fascists and commies are both on the demon rat side.