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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 05:41 PM 17 hrs ago

The Chaos Is the Point

The Chaos Is the Point

April 1, 2026 at 11:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 90 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/01/the-chaos-is-the-point/


Rick Hasen: “That certainly seems true of President Donald Trump’s second executive order on elections, issued on Tuesday. The order purports, among other things, to direct the United States Department of Homeland Security to create a list of all U.S. citizens over 18, to supply that list to states, and for the United States Postal Service to refuse to accept mailed-in ballots from voters unless that voter’s name appears on a list of the state’s eligible voters that it has given USPS months before the election…”

“The order will face multiple court challenges and likely will be found unconstitutional by courts. Even if courts did not intervene before November, the multiple rulemakings and new procedures for DHS, USPS, and state and local election officials envisioned by the order would be impossible to implement before November’s elections. Indeed, the order is so underwhelming that it suggests Trump’s real purpose was not its implementation but to create more confusion and litigation around elections, further undermining voter confidence in the integrity of American elections.”
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