The Supreme Court granted the President sweeping new powers to fire executive branch officials, and on Thursday Donald Trump wasted little time flexing his emboldened authority.
The President, who still denies that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, fired a pair of liberal election officials.
He ordered the firing of Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, two Democratic members appointed by Congressional Democrats, while GOP member Christy McCormick resigned.
All three were members of the independent Election Assistance Commission, a body created to facilitate elections in 2002. The move comes just four months before the midterm elections that will determine the balance of power for Trump’s
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