Rahul Sharma's AP Govt Blog 3.1

The Trump administration decide to end the Voter Fraud  Commission because of the  States’ resistance to the commission. The White House said that “many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry.” Trump claims that millions of people voting illegally had cost him the popular vote in the 2016 election. However, there is no evidence to back up his comments.
The rate of voter fraud found by a Loyola Law School study was pretty much rare/nonexistent - 35 total credible accusations between 2000 and 2014 out of the 800 million ballots cast in those 15 years. That represents about 0.000003 alleged cases of fraud for every vote cast
Another, more recent investigation in North Carolina by the State Board of Elections similarly found just one — out of nearly 4.8 million total votes in 2016 — credible case of in-person voter fraud. That amounts to just 0.00002 percent of all votes.
Trump based his claims on a 2012 report from the Pew Center on the States as evidence for their claim. The report, however, didn’t  focus on voter fraud. Instead, it pointed out the technical aspects of voter registration systems, and how America could save money by upgrading how it registers voters.
Republicans continue to emphasize the danger of voter fraud because it'll make winning elections easier for them. Republicans tend to push for laws that make it harder to vote. Somehow, it makes it harder for the poor, young, and minorities. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions changed federal marijuana law enforcement by rescinding guidances from former President Barack Obama’s administration that allowed states to legalize marijuana with minimal federal interference. Sessions' new plan will let federal prosecutors use their own discretion to crack down on marijuana businesses in states where pot is legal for recreational purposes. The Obama administration took a softer approach to the drug, essentially letting states legalize as long as they met certain criteria.
The "Cole memo" told the states that as long as they followed some rules (like not letting legal pot fall into kids’ hands or flow across state borders), the feds wouldn’t crack down. This let states carry out their legalization schemes with little federal interference — although federal law does still make it so legal pot businesses can’t claim certain tax deductions and easily access banking.
Sessions' new plan will effect both the marijuana businesses and the efforts to legalize. It could even empower the Justice Department to shut down the entire legal marijuana industry, though that would take a lot of resources.
Marijuana still is not legal, so the Department of Justice is obligated to enfore it. Congress can change the impact of the enforcement by legalizing marijuana at the federal level and leaving it to the states to decide what to do about marijuana.
Sessions's actions might provoke a backlash from Republicans because his policy lets federal law enforcement go against the will of the voters. As of today, eight states  have legalized marijuana with voter support. The federal government is effectively rejecting those votes by going after legal pot in those states — and voters could take offense to that. Furthermore, marijuana legalization is fairly popular at the national level.

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