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BumRushDaShow

(160,069 posts)
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 06:22 AM Sep 9

Lawyer Who Helped Trump Try To Overturn Election Says He May Use 'Emergency Powers' To Take Control of Elections

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 8th, 2025, 7:41 pm


A lawyer who helped President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election claimed the president can “exercise some emergency powers” to wield authority over elections, which are a state matter.

After the 2020 election, Cleta Mitchell, then a partner at Foley & Lardner, participated in the infamous phone call in which Trump tried to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, which was one more than Trump’s margin of defeat in the state. Raffensperger denied Trump’s baseless claims of fraud. Mitchell later alleged that Raffensperger was “simply not correct.”

After the call became public, Mitchell resigned from Foley & Lardner. Last week, she appeared on Washington Watch, where she vaguely claimed that Trump could invoke emergency powers to take control of elections.

“The president’s authority is limited,” Mitchell said. “The chief executive is limited in his role with regard to elections, except that where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States, as I think that we can establish with the porous system that we have, then I think maybe the president is thinking that he will exercise some emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/lawyer-who-helped-trump-try-to-overturn-election-says-he-may-use-emergency-powers-to-take-control-of-elections/



Link to 65 Project ETHICS COMPLAINT (PDF viewer) - Ethics Complaint Against Trump Attorney Cleta Mitchell

Link to 65 Project ETHICS COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://the65project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-65-Projects-Ethics-Complaint-Against-Trump-Attorney-Cleta-Mitchell.pdf

This is another one that needs to be disbarred. An ethics complaint had been filed in 2022

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Lawyer Who Helped Trump Try To Overturn Election Says He May Use 'Emergency Powers' To Take Control of Elections (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 9 OP
May... MaineBlueBear Sep 9 #1
He's been claiming "emergency powers" for everything else so far BumRushDaShow Sep 9 #2
I could be wrong, but I don't think shithole has the military in his pocket................ Lovie777 Sep 9 #3
I tend to agree liberalgunwilltravel Sep 9 #5
They'll just start with the National Guard BumRushDaShow Sep 9 #8
Well, he's already sending National Guard to where they're not wanted or needed. n/t thesquanderer Sep 9 #12
If he can stop the blue cities from voting, he has the elections in the bag. Irish_Dem Wednesday #26
if we have midterms, it will probably be one of the most fucked up elections since the hay market riots. nt Javaman Sep 9 #4
The Haymarket Affair advocated for an 8 hour work day leading to four unlawful executions MayReasonRule Sep 9 #13
don't get me wrong, I agree but the elections where totally fucked up. nt Javaman Wednesday #25
Provoking a war with A South American... littlemissmartypants Sep 9 #6
Once Trump got immunity in July 2024, Democrats had this option bucolic_frolic Sep 9 #7
The Extreme Court knew they had zero worries of Biden exploiting it Bengus81 Sep 9 #11
But it was not a question of expoliting it, it was a question of saving the country, Biden should have done Escurumbele Sep 9 #17
They always do whatever they want claiming a threat... kerouac2 Sep 9 #9
"Protect"? She means control or disrupt. truthisfreedom Sep 9 #10
Another emergency??? travelingthrulife Sep 9 #14
We can't rely liberalgunwilltravel Sep 9 #15
Agreed ! popsdenver Sep 9 #19
US courts work for the Putin/Trump Crime Syndicate. Irish_Dem Wednesday #27
Shit, who needs emergency powers, when you got bluestarone Sep 9 #16
"...with the porous system that we have..." MissMillie Sep 9 #18
Republicans couldn't care less about that fact. It's just an excuse for them to do whatever they want to do, anyhow. Karasu Sep 9 #22
Of course MissMillie Wednesday #28
Well is seems trumpy does have 6 republianmushroom Sep 9 #20
Poor Marc Elias - he's gonna be sooo busy. Fortunately, he usually wins. Marie Marie Sep 9 #21
Been expecting this. We should have been attacking these bullshit emergency declarations from the start. They are the Karasu Sep 9 #23
There are multiple cases that were filed (by states, businesses, individuals, orgs) that HAVE "attacked" that BumRushDaShow Wednesday #24

BumRushDaShow

(160,069 posts)
2. He's been claiming "emergency powers" for everything else so far
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 06:54 AM
Sep 9
  • Deporting people without due process (Alien Enemies Act)
  • Tariffs (The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA))


  • And he's itching to instigate something in order to declare martial law (with this mess in L.A., D.C., Boston, and Chicago, etc) and then go from there.

    And "Daddy Roberts" has been helping him along with every step.

    Lovie777

    (20,205 posts)
    3. I could be wrong, but I don't think shithole has the military in his pocket................
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 07:32 AM
    Sep 9

    to physically attack fellow Americans with such a weak reason for Martial Law.

    5. I tend to agree
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 07:40 AM
    Sep 9

    He’s fired most of the competent leaders who still command real respect from their former troops and officers. Fat Boy may find out that if he tries to play that game he’s the one who will be staring down the barrel of an M4.

    BumRushDaShow

    (160,069 posts)
    8. They'll just start with the National Guard
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:06 AM
    Sep 9

    which is what they are doing in L.A. and D.C. as "test cases". Their "excuse" would be "to protect government buildings".

    Then ICE will be bolder and will be knocking down doors, busting into schools and churches, and dragging people out in front of cameras wielded by the gleeful media ready to broadcast this next chapter of 45's brutal reality show, and that will rile up people even more.

    They want to spark a "riot" so they can make the same mistake that a former South Korean President did - South Korea's president removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law

    and that a NOW-FORMER Nepalese Prime Minister JUST DID TODAY with a violent reaction to a mass protest - Nepal's prime minister resigns as protesters defy curfew to set fire to leaders' homes

    Javaman

    (64,472 posts)
    4. if we have midterms, it will probably be one of the most fucked up elections since the hay market riots. nt
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 07:35 AM
    Sep 9

    MayReasonRule

    (3,774 posts)
    13. The Haymarket Affair advocated for an 8 hour work day leading to four unlawful executions
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 09:45 AM
    Sep 9

    Last edited Tue Sep 9, 2025, 02:32 PM - Edit history (1)



    littlemissmartypants

    (29,730 posts)
    6. Provoking a war with A South American...
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 07:57 AM
    Sep 9

    Country **cough** **Venezuela** **cough**

    Should do the trick.

    He's already got Hogsbreath on the case off the shores of Puerto Rico.

    bucolic_frolic

    (52,385 posts)
    7. Once Trump got immunity in July 2024, Democrats had this option
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:03 AM
    Sep 9

    if they had thought of it. No telling how it would have played, but it was there.

    Bengus81

    (9,351 posts)
    11. The Extreme Court knew they had zero worries of Biden exploiting it
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:17 AM
    Sep 9

    But Trump just might get re-elected so on they went with it. Get a Dem back in the WH and they'll be revisiting that law in a big fucking hurry.

    Escurumbele

    (3,896 posts)
    17. But it was not a question of expoliting it, it was a question of saving the country, Biden should have done
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 11:01 AM
    Sep 9

    something to prevent this buffoon from taking office again, that would fall into "defending the country from domestic enemy".

    Now, why isn't that lawyer being barred for participating in that call?

    kerouac2

    (1,274 posts)
    9. They always do whatever they want claiming a threat...
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:11 AM
    Sep 9

    These wimps apparently feel threatened by everything and everyone. And think it gives them the right to do whatever they want.

    truthisfreedom

    (23,468 posts)
    10. "Protect"? She means control or disrupt.
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:13 AM
    Sep 9

    Nothing this asshole does is to protect anything but project 2025.

    15. We can't rely
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 10:06 AM
    Sep 9

    On the Courts, Congress, not the media, not the elite institutions, or anyone else. We can only rely on ourselves. No one else is going to stop this rapid march toward fascism. And most unfortunately, we’re headed for terribly violent times in the not too distant future.

    popsdenver

    (452 posts)
    19. Agreed !
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 11:59 AM
    Sep 9

    WASF

    Since Trump first got "Installed" in his first term, I was frightened at what we were watching go on behind the scenes........

    Quite honestly....... we have absolutely NO IDEA, how DEEPLY the MAGAots have infiltrated the members of the U.S. Military, National Guard, State and Local LEO's, Secret Service, FBI, Appellate Courts, Border Patrol, ICE, Dept of Homeland Security, etc etc etc.........

    bluestarone

    (20,282 posts)
    16. Shit, who needs emergency powers, when you got
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 10:49 AM
    Sep 9

    The Supreme court in your pocket? What's anybody gonna do when they rule TSF's boys won the election? Without reasons.

    MissMillie

    (39,423 posts)
    18. "...with the porous system that we have..."
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 11:53 AM
    Sep 9

    This claim of a "porous system" has been debunked numerous times.

    Karasu

    (2,003 posts)
    22. Republicans couldn't care less about that fact. It's just an excuse for them to do whatever they want to do, anyhow.
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:14 PM
    Sep 9

    republianmushroom

    (21,364 posts)
    20. Well is seems trumpy does have 6
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 12:15 PM
    Sep 9

    very close allies sitting in the SCOUS who seem willing to over turn the Constitution.

    Karasu

    (2,003 posts)
    23. Been expecting this. We should have been attacking these bullshit emergency declarations from the start. They are the
    Tue Sep 9, 2025, 10:42 PM
    Sep 9

    Last edited Wed Sep 10, 2025, 04:57 AM - Edit history (1)

    basis for practically ALL of his executive orders.

    BumRushDaShow

    (160,069 posts)
    24. There are multiple cases that were filed (by states, businesses, individuals, orgs) that HAVE "attacked" that
    Wed Sep 10, 2025, 03:43 AM
    Wednesday

    and the lower courts have agreed and halted the overreach.

    But then 45 runs to "Daddy Roberts" and Roberts overturns the lower courts and lets the country continue to be carpet-bombed to rubble.

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