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But registering voters was not delegated. So can’t states can do a lot more in that area to push back in that area? The federal government has no authority in voting, so if the feds are trying to enforce something, the states are far more free to interfere with federal agents.Well, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (also known as the Motor Voter Act) might beg to differ with you. The Elections Clause, as well as the various voting rights clauses of the Constitution, open the door to federal participation in the
rules governing elections. They can't "nationalize" the elections, in the sense that the elections are to be run by the states, but they can
certainly adopt
some rules regarding them. So the NVRA contains a lot of rules requiring states to afford certain avenues to register to vote, and those rules were upheld as constitutional a few years after they were adopted.
That doesn't mean that there aren't lines that cabin how far the federal government can go, of course. But even if (or when) the Administration crosses those lines, the remedy will be for states to go into federal court to argue that the government is outside their authority.
Not for individual police officers or national guardsmen to start using force to physically prevent their federal counterparts from doing something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Regis...https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/wi...
