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In reply to the discussion: FEC commissioner responds to Trump: 'We do not "get rid of" ballots' [View all]Marcuse
(7,399 posts)34. Weintraub notwithstanding, the Federal Election Commission has been assimilated.
The head of the Federal Election Commission chastised Catholic bishops during a pair of interviews this week, accusing church hierarchy of hiding behind their nonprofit status and declaring that this years election amounts to a spiritual war that threatens the countrys Christian moral principles.
FEC Chairman James E. Trey Trainor III made the remarks during an interview released Wednesday by Church Militant, a controversial conservative Catholic media outlet, and repeated them in a separate phone interview with Religion News Service.
Trainor, who is Catholic and attends Mass weekly, was asked by Church Militant founder Michael Voris about a priest who recently published a video in which he declares that no Catholic can be a Democrat. The video went viral.
Trainor, a Republican lawyer who was nominated to the FEC by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in May, also told Voris that a 2017 executive order signed by Trump frees churches to endorse political candidates.
But FEC Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub disputed Trainors claim that Trumps executive order allows faith groups to ignore the Johnson Amendment, a provision of U.S. tax law that bars nonprofits from endorsing political candidates.
My colleague is not correct, Weintraub, a Democrat who has chaired the commission three times since joining it in 2002, said in a statement.
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/fec-chair-trainor-religion-catholic/2020/09/18/d34c643c-f9d6-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html|
FEC Chairman James E. Trey Trainor III made the remarks during an interview released Wednesday by Church Militant, a controversial conservative Catholic media outlet, and repeated them in a separate phone interview with Religion News Service.
Trainor, who is Catholic and attends Mass weekly, was asked by Church Militant founder Michael Voris about a priest who recently published a video in which he declares that no Catholic can be a Democrat. The video went viral.
Trainor, a Republican lawyer who was nominated to the FEC by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in May, also told Voris that a 2017 executive order signed by Trump frees churches to endorse political candidates.
But FEC Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub disputed Trainors claim that Trumps executive order allows faith groups to ignore the Johnson Amendment, a provision of U.S. tax law that bars nonprofits from endorsing political candidates.
My colleague is not correct, Weintraub, a Democrat who has chaired the commission three times since joining it in 2002, said in a statement.
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/fec-chair-trainor-religion-catholic/2020/09/18/d34c643c-f9d6-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html|
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FEC commissioner responds to Trump: 'We do not "get rid of" ballots' [View all]
brooklynite
Sep 2020
OP
spot on. The cornered dog is desperate as heck to avoid paying for his crimes, so he's resorting to
onetexan
Sep 2020
#28
Tilting the court to help Trump steal the election, is not support for a normal transition.
lagomorph777
Sep 2020
#37
He does realize that if they pull it off and fill RBG seat BEFORE the election. That his 2024....
usaf-vet
Sep 2020
#25
Trump's words can be use to convict him of conspiracy to defraud the 2020 election.
patphil
Sep 2020
#11
FEC is 100% impotent b/c they don't have a quorum b/c Trump has withheld nominations
RockRaven
Sep 2020
#12
The FEC may be impotent. Think SCOTUS is going to go along with tossing out ballots?
Thekaspervote
Sep 2020
#16
SCOTUS would be asked if it is lawful for state legislators to throw out state election law
Thekaspervote
Sep 2020
#29
SCOTUS says that elections are the purview of the states, and state can do whatever they want.
not_the_one
Sep 2020
#35
Weintraub notwithstanding, the Federal Election Commission has been assimilated.
Marcuse
Sep 2020
#34