Maintenance in progress

in a compressed sequence, the us supreme court removed protections for independent agency officials, the president used the ruling within ten days to remove immigration judges, the justice department demanded state voter rolls and threatened prosecutions, and a televised address used declassified intelligence to claim china stole 220 million voter records and that the intelligence community suppressed it. each item alone would be significant; together they describe rapid consolidation of executive control over both the bureaucracy and the election apparatus ahead of midterms.

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