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19 states complain against Trump’s plans for US elections
Updated on 04.04.2025 – 02:28 a.m.Reading time: 11 min.
Trump wants to intervene in the right of voting by decree and threatens unwilling states with payment stops. They don’t put up with that. All developments in the news blog.
Several US states legally proceed against the intended tightening of the electoral rules by President Donald Trump. In the lawsuit of the General Prosecutors from 19 mainly democratically ruled states-including California and New York-it is clear that the US constitution is clear on this question: The responsibility for the implementation of elections is primarily with the states.
In the lawsuit, Trump’s latest decree is criticized as a “unprecedented expansion of power” of the executive. It is “unconstitutional, undemocratic and un -American”, undermine the separation of powers and harm the efforts of the states to protect the right to vote for their citizens.
Trump signed a far -reaching arrangement at the beginning of last week. In it, he commissioned several federal authorities to take steps to enforce stricter election specifications – if necessary with financial pressure. Among other things, the order provides for stricter obligations to prove US citizenship as well as tougher measures against alleged voting fraud and restrictions on voting by postal voting.
U.S. President Donald Trump is open to negotiations after the announcement of his huge customs package. “It depends. If someone says we give you something that is so phenomenal. As long as they give us something that is good,” said the Republican when asked by a journalist whether he was open to deals with the countries concerned. The tariffs would give the United States’ power. His son Eric Trump, however, gave advice for negotiations with his father.
The internal supervision of the US Department of Defense examines the publication of content from a secret group chat of high-ranking government members. At the request of the Minister of Defense, Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Signal app is examined with the Signal app, as can be seen from a letter from the independent control body. Read more about this here.
Against the background of growing tensions between the USA and its European allies, US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has given a clear commitment to his country to NATO. “We will stay in NATO,” said Rubio at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday. At the same time, he called for NATO members to increase their military spending to five percent of the respective gross domestic product (GDP)-and included his own country. Read more about this here.
Canada reacts to US President Donald Trump in the trade war and imposes counter-tariffs to certain vehicle imports from the United States. Ottawa will take all cars that were not produced as part of the North American trade pact in USMCA with 25 percent import fees, announced the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Oil prices reacted on Thursday with a strong decline to the huge customs package of the US government and a higher amount of funding from the Olverbund OPEC+. A barrel (159 liters) of the North Sea variety Brent for delivery in June cost $ 69.89. That was $ 5.05 less than the day before. The price for a barrel of the US variety WTI for delivery in May fell by $ 5.24 to $ 66.47. This also has to do with Trump’s customs plans.
