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Are presidential elections even the responsibility of the executive branch? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by podperson@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Is “maintaining the integrity of the presidential election” even fall under the responsibilities of POTUS? Wouldn’t that be more of the judicial’s or legislative’s wheelhouse? If it’s not, doesn’t that completely invalidate Trump’s argument that he was acting under his presidential duties?

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 15 points 2 years ago

Elections are the responsibility of the states under some regulation by the federal government. However, the federal regulation for elections is a lot more hands off than other cases of federalism, with agencies like the FEC specifically designed not to report to the President.

Trump's lawyers are trying to claim that the President is responsible to get Presidential immunity for his actions, but the argument is pretty crap.