Bipartisan. Independent. Empty before the midterms.
The White House calls it securing elections. The bipartisan commission that administers them now has no one home.
Source article: Trump removes remaining Election Assistance Commission commissioners.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- election, government, government policy, judiciary, politics
- Storylines
- election-administration, presidential-power
- Primary entities
- Donald Trump, U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Thomas Hicks, Benjamin Hovland, Christy McCormick, Alex Padilla, Joe Morelle, Supreme Court of the United States, Brennan Center for Justice, Michael Waldman
- Themes
- election administration, executive power, agency independence, voting rights, midterm elections
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness, Informed citizenship