For most of my adult life, I grew up understanding that one of the cores of the conservative platform was empowering states’ rights and (encouraging) state laboratories of democracy and the like.
Nick Brown: “For most of my adult life, I grew up understanding that one of the cores of the conservative platform was empowering…”
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Brown criticizes Trump's executive orders for undermining states' rights.
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If Trump attempts to intimidate or discourage eligible voters, or to obstruct the counting of votes or certification of the election, Democratic state attorneys general will take swift action.
As the court said, states’ compliance with this illegal order would be ‘practically impossible’ before the November elections given the unprecedented demands it would put on state and local elections officials.
“Washington state’s elections are secure thanks to the work of state and local leaders across the ideological spectrum.”
Presidents don’t decide elections. State attorneys general and the millions of eligible voters we represent will exercise our constitutional powers to help keep it that way.





