Lawyer Who Helped Trump Try To Overturn Election Says He May Use ‘Emergency Powers’ To Take Control of Elections

Michael Luciano Sep 8th, 2025, 7:41 pm

A lawyer who helped President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election claimed the president can “exercise some emergency powers” to wield authority over elections, which are a state matter.

After the 2020 election, Cleta Mitchell , then a partner at Foley & Lardner, participated in the infamous phone call in which Trump tried to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, which was one more than Trump’s margin of defeat in the state. Raffensperger denied Trump’s baseless claims of fraud. Mitchell later alleged that Raffensperger was “simply not correct.”

After the call became public

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