Court decisions have impeded most of the president’s attempts to shape how elections are conducted, but he keeps trying.
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After a series of legal defeats that frustrated President Donald Trump’s attempts to overhaul state election procedures ahead of the November midterm elections, Trump doubled down in dramatic fashion. Empowered by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that upheld his authority to fire independent agency officials without cause, the president last week dismissed two Democratic members of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency that helps states with election logistics and security, and allowed the remaining member, a Republican, to resign.
Ashley Dowdney is a Dispatch intern from Asheville, North Carolina. She graduated in 2026 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Classics and Peace, War, & Defense. When she isn’t writing, you’ll find her running, making some new fermented food, and maybe even evangelizing about 19th century literature.
