A secretive 17-page draft executive order alleging foreign interference and proposing extraordinary presidential authority over US elections is circulating in political circles, sparking alarm among legal experts and reigniting debate over the limits of executive power in American democracy.
President Donald Trump's second term has already been marked by an expansion of executive actions that reshape federal power, but the latest leaked document, described by its proponents as an executive order draft, goes far beyond routine policy changes. It asserts that a foreign power interfered in a past election and uses that allegation as the basis to declare a national emergency to control key aspects of US voting procedures.
