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.
