Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again. So today, we're going to talk about Trump,

nationalizing and reading the Constitution. Trump was on a podcast and said something ridiculous,

and the media, in pursuit of ad revenue,

treated a completely unserious and blatantly unconstitutional suggestion

as something worthy of debate, and therefore actually increased the likelihood of it happening.

This is not actually up for debate.

Trump said, quote, the Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting. The voting in at least many, 15 places.

The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. So, this is being said after it became

ridiculously apparent that Trump can't cancel the elections and that any attempt to do so

would actually hurt the states that went along with it, which by default would be Republican states.

So now that that plan is shot, Trump went on to the next one and really just showed he's either never read or doesn't understand the most basic aspects of the Constitution and that he

doesn't believe his base is patriotic enough to have ever read

the Constitution either. Article 1, Section 4

The time, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall

be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.

But the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places

of choosing senators.

The Constitution grants power to the state to handle their own elections. It gives

Congress a secondary role to alter regulations, not nationalize the elections in 15 states that

hurt Trump's feelings. In fact, beyond that, in Cook v. Grellike, 2001, the Supreme Court

held that neither Congress nor the states can even attempt to dictate outcomes of elections.

In the case, the state of Missouri just wanted to add a little notice to ballots, saying

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