Pro-Trump attorneys are reportedly pressing former President Donald Trump and his inner circle to take the most aggressive step yet on election integrity by invoking a sweeping national emergency order ahead of this years contests.
According to the Gateway Pundit, these lawyers, some with long-standing personal and professional ties to Trump, are in active discussions with his team about an executive order premised on an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. As reported by the Daily Mail and cited by the outlet, the proposal rests on claims of foreign interferenceparticularly from Chinain the 2020 presidential race, which they argue justifies extraordinary presidential action to secure future elections.
The Daily Mail describes a 17-page draft executive order that would grant Trump broad authority over the upcoming midterms if he were to return to the Oval Office or influence current policy debates. Attorneys close to Donald Trump are urging the President to declare a national emergency that would allow him to take sweeping powers over the crucial midterm elections, the report states, outlining a plan that would dramatically reshape how Americans vote.
Central to the effort is attorney Peter Ticktin, a longtime Trump associate who attended New York Military Academy with him and later represented him in court. Ticktin is reportedly part of a cadre of pro-Trump lawyers in communication with the White House over the election plan, arguing that the scale of foreign meddling demands a muscular executive response.
The draft order contends that alleged Chinese interference in 2020 provides the legal and factual basis for such a declaration. There is now clear and compelling evidence from court cases and forensic analysis that these threats have not been mitigated but instead have intensified, the document asserts, adding, This constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
As the Mail notes, the proposed order would empower the president to impose nationwide voter ID requirements, prohibit universal vote-by-mail, and mandate that ballots be counted by hand rather than by machines. For conservatives who have long warned about the vulnerabilities of mass mail-in voting and electronic tabulation, such measures would mark a decisive shift toward election safeguards that many red states have already begun to adopt.
ABC News reports that Trump has already reviewed the draft order, and the lawyers involved anticipate potential executive action in the near future. This push coincides with mounting frustration on the right over the fate of the SAVE Act, a key election security bill backed by Trump that has stalled in the Senate.
The SAVE Act, designed to tighten voter registration rules and prevent non-citizens from casting ballots, has been blocked by a coalition that includes several Republicans in Name Only (RINOs) who have repeatedly undercut the MAGA agenda. For many conservatives, this obstruction only reinforces the need for strong executive measures to prevent Democrats from exploiting lax rules to tilt federal elections in their favor.
A White House official, responding to ABC News about the reported executive order discussions, downplayed the significance of the talks without directly denying them. The official said the administration hears from a variety of outside advocates who want to share their policy ideas with the President. Any speculation about policies the President may or may not announce is just that speculation.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson likewise offered what amounted to a non-denial when pressed for comment. President Trump is committed to ensuring that Americans have full confidence in the administration of elections, and that includes totally accurate and up-to-date voter rolls free of errors and unlawfully registered non-citizen voters, Jackson told The Washington Post.
The President has urged Congress to pass the SAVE Act and other legislative proposals that would establish a uniform standard of photo ID for voting, prohibit no-excuse mail-in voting, and end the practice of ballot harvesting, she added. Her remarks underscore a broader conservative push for uniform national standards that would curb practices widely embraced by Democrats under the banner of access, but viewed by many on the right as ripe for abuse.
A central unresolved issue is whether such an executive order could withstand the inevitable legal onslaught from the left and from activist judges. Historically, significant changes to election law have been enacted through legislatures, not by presidential decree, a fact Democrats will surely invoke even as they defend their own past reliance on executive maneuvers.
One major exception came during the COVID-19 pandemic, when numerous states bypassed or stretched their own constitutional and statutory limits to impose mass mail-in voting and other emergency measures, often via executive action or administrative fiat. Conservatives argue that if such unilateral changes were tolerated to expand voting access, similar tools should be available to restore integrity and security to the process.
Ticktin, however, appears undeterred by the legal and political headwinds, insisting that the gravity of the moment demands decisive leadership. We have a situation where the President is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes, Ticktin explained to The Washington Post.
That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it, he said, repeating the point for emphasis: That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it. Whether the courts will allow a president to use emergency powers to clean up a system many Americans no longer trust remains to be seen, but the growing pressure from Trumps allies signals that the fight over election integrity is far from over.
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