{"id":18795,"date":"2026-02-09T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/markey-to-introduce-resolution-denouncing-trumps-call-to-nationalize-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:21:19","slug":"markey-to-introduce-resolution-denouncing-trumps-call-to-nationalize-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/markey-to-introduce-resolution-denouncing-trumps-call-to-nationalize-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Markey to introduce resolution denouncing Trump\u2019s call to \u2018nationalize\u2019 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on Monday plans to introduce a resolution denouncing statements by President Trump calling on Republicans to &ldquo;nationalize&rdquo; or &ldquo;take over&rdquo; voting procedures in more than a dozen key states ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. &ldquo;The&nbsp;Constitution&nbsp;gives&nbsp;states the&nbsp;primary authority over the times&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5729617-markey-resolution-trump-election-takeover\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on Monday plans to introduce a resolution denouncing statements by President Trump calling on Republicans to &ldquo;nationalize&rdquo; or &ldquo;take over&rdquo; voting procedures in more than a dozen key states ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. &ldquo;The&nbsp;Constitution&nbsp;gives&nbsp;states the&nbsp;primary authority over the times&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}