Trump removes Election Assistance Commission members, report says
The White House said the removals align the agency with election-integrity efforts, while critics warned the move leaves no quorum for key duties.
- On Thursday, President Donald Trump removed the remaining commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission via an "effective immediately" email from the White House personnel office, leaving the agency without confirmed members.
- The dismissals followed the Supreme Court's June 29 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, which granted the President authority to remove leaders of independent agencies, reversing decades of precedent protecting such officials.
- Chairman Thomas Hicks and Commissioner Benjamin Hovland were fired, while Republican Vice Chair Christy McCormick resigned; a White House official stated the President requires individuals "totally aligned with the important task of securing America's elections."
- With no confirmed commissioners, the EAC cannot update national mail-in voter registration forms, certify voting equipment, or distribute Help America Vote grants to states, effectively halting the agency's primary operations.
- Senator Alex Padilla and Representative Joe Morelle accused the President of politicizing election administration, citing the move as part of the administration's broader efforts to erode independent oversight ahead of the midterms.
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Elijah the cat and his political platform. Photo by Lisa Zins, Creative Commons License 2.0With just 112 days left until the midterm elections, Donald Trump has eliminated all the members of the four-person bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, which helps states conduct their elections freely and fairly. Trump shitcanned the two Democrats on the commission, but let the one remaining Republican resign. (The commission’s other Republican res…
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