Election lawyer on debate over federal action on elections #shorts
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Trevor Potter, an election lawyer who worked on several Republican presidential campaigns and now runs the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, explains why some states are pushing back against growing federal actions on elections.
“In all the years I’ve been involved with elections, it has traditionally been the Republicans who have said, ‘We don’t want too much federal involvement,’” he says. “That reflects I think fairly the constitutional structure, where the states are in charge of elections.”
A top Justice Department official told 60 Minutes that the government’s efforts “sends the message to citizens that the federal government takes the integrity of our elections seriously.”
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Trevor Potter, an election lawyer who worked on several Republican presidential campaigns and now runs the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, explains why some states are pushing back against growing federal actions on elections.
“In all the years I’ve been involved with elections, it has traditionally been the Republicans who have said, ‘We don’t want too much federal involvement,’” he says. “That reflects I think fairly the constitutional structure, where the states are in charge of elections.”
A top Justice Department official told 60 Minutes that the government’s efforts “sends the message to citizens that the federal government takes the integrity of our elections seriously.”
"60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10.
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"60 Minutes," the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regular...