"We Should Take Over the Voting... Nationalize the Voting"

Walter Olson

In a Monday interview with former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump said, “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.”

Cato asked me to write a press statement responding to this, and I wrote the following: 

Even coming from an ordinary politician, this federal takeover would be a terrible idea. The Constitution...