US Politics
The Institutional Purge: Trump's Assault on the Election Assistance Commission and the Fragility of Democracy
President Donald Trump has ousted the bipartisan members of the federal Election Assistance Commission who resisted his push to require citizenship documentation for voter registration, utilizing a recent Supreme Court decision that expanded his removal powers. This calculated purge of an independent commission established by a bipartisan act is a direct assault on the institutional guardrails of our democracy, trading integrity for political control and dangerously politicizing the very foundations of our electoral system.
