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 Trumps margin of defeat in the state. Raffensperger denied Trumps 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 presidents 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

MaineBlueBear
(299 posts)BumRushDaShow
(160,069 posts)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)to physically attack fellow Americans with such a weak reason for Martial Law.
liberalgunwilltravel
(912 posts)Hes 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 hes the one who will be staring down the barrel of an M4.
BumRushDaShow
(160,069 posts)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
thesquanderer
(12,764 posts)Irish_Dem
(74,737 posts)Javaman
(64,472 posts)MayReasonRule
(3,774 posts)Javaman
(64,472 posts)littlemissmartypants
(29,730 posts)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)if they had thought of it. No telling how it would have played, but it was there.
Bengus81
(9,351 posts)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)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)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)Nothing this asshole does is to protect anything but project 2025.
travelingthrulife
(3,241 posts)Where are our fucking courts???
liberalgunwilltravel
(912 posts)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, were headed for terribly violent times in the not too distant future.
popsdenver
(452 posts)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.........
Irish_Dem
(74,737 posts)bluestarone
(20,282 posts)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)This claim of a "porous system" has been debunked numerous times.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)MissMillie
(39,423 posts)The fake elector scheme of 1/6/21 made this perfectly clear.
republianmushroom
(21,364 posts)very close allies sitting in the SCOUS who seem willing to over turn the Constitution.
Marie Marie
(10,535 posts)Karasu
(2,003 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 10, 2025, 04:57 AM - Edit history (1)
basis for practically ALL of his executive orders.
BumRushDaShow
(160,069 posts)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.