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Ex-White House lawyer: Trump 'stacking every card in the deck' ahead of midterms

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Ex-White House lawyer: Trump 'stacking every card in the deck' ahead of midterms. Former White House attorney Ty Cobb warned Friday that President Trump's decision to fire the remaining Democratic members of an independent election administration commission this week is part of a "deliberate plan" to put his thumb on the scale of the upcoming midterm elections. Trump removed Democrats Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks from the commission on Thursday, with the White House citing his authority to do so under the Supreme Court's recent decision in the recent Slaughter case. The president's move was slammed by Democrats and voting rights groups, who view it is a thinly veiled attempt to interfere with future elections, even as experts say it is likely to have limited impact on this election cycle. "I don't think we can be sanguine about the elections because he is stacking every card in the deck that he can get his hands on," Cobb said. "All the signals are flashing red, the latest being @POTUS's summary dismissal of the remaining Federal Election Assistance Commission members," Democratic strategist David Axelrod wrote in a social media post on Friday.