BREAKING: Marc Elias CRUSHES Trump in court

A federal judge issued a 'blockbuster victory' against a Trump administration executive order that asserted presidential authority over federal elections, specifically concerning proof of citizenship for voter registration. The judge explicitly stated, "Our Constitution does not allow the president to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures" and "assigned no role at all to the president when it came to election rules."

Marc Elias, lead counsel in the case, details the ruling, quoting the federal judge's statements.

The Constitution's plain text grants states the power to set the 'time, place, and manner' of elections, subject only to override by Congress. The president is explicitly left out of this equation. This constitutional framework directly contradicts any executive assertion of authority over election rules or processes.

Elias explains that 'if you are a textualist or an originalist... it is hard to get around the fact that the constitution gives the states, not the president, the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections and that it explicitly says that Congress can overrule the decisions of the states.'

This ruling is critical because it directly challenges the precedent for a president to unilaterally impose restrictions on voter registration, absentee ballots, or ballot counting. Elias highlights that the Trump administration's broader goal is to establish a nationwide precedent that the president can dictate election rules, framing states as 'agents' in counting ballots.

Elias states, 'If you are worried as I am... about the president saying he's going to ban mail and voting, he's going to... seize voting equipment, he's going to insist that he can count ballots. This is a federal judge saying under constitutional separation of powers principles that the president has no role at all in federal elections.'