Jamie Raskin: “Maintaining the official records of a constitutional democracy like ours is a sacred public duty.”

Amidst an alarming increase in antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of toxic hate, Team Maryland is surging more than $8.6 million in federal Nonprofit Security Grants to protect our people.

This is a naked power grab by a historically unpopular president—who himself regularly votes by mail—to inject confusion and chaos into our elections in a last-ditch effort to keep his party in power.

It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.

But stealing taxpayer dollars to pay for Mr. Trump’s narcissistic ego trips is plainly illegal.