I’ve gotten a number of helpful responses to my post from earlier today about the necessity of escalating the question of whether the White House will try to deploy ICE agents to interfere with the 2026 midterm elections. In the course of follow up on a few points readers had made I found a piece of model legislation published on March 9th by the Brennan Center. (If you don’t know about the Brenna...
This article represents a call to action for state legislatures to pass legislation that empowers them to prevent potential election interference by federal law enforcement agents. This is seen as a response to concerns about the current administration's control over federal law enforcement agencies. The proposed model legislation seeks to mimic existing federal laws, which already ban soldiers or armed federal agents from polling stations. By passing similar state laws, states aim to take power...