MAGA lawyer advises Trump to take over the midterms

Peter Ticktin, an 80-year-old South Florida lawyer and Donald Trump's former New York Military Academy classmate, has advised the president to issue an executive order seizing control of November's midterm elections.

Ticktin claims foreign interference constitutes an election emergency justifying presidential action. He has drafted an executive order outline and circulated a 17-page memo in conservative circles proposing the takeover, though he denies writing the longer document. Ticktin...