Swordsmyth
03-15-2018, 05:02 PM
“SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION AT POLLING PLACES. This section shall not prevent any officer or agent of the United States Secret Service from providing armed protective services authorized under section 3056 or pursuant to a Presidential memorandum at any place where a general or special election is held. [emphasis added] – H.R. 2825, section 4012 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2825/text)”
The single sentence above, which amends current federal law, would give the president unprecedented authority to send armed Secret Service agents to any US polling place for any reason. The law allows the president to send armed Secret Service agents to every US polling place if he has enough agents.
The 250-page bill containing this new authority, H.R. 2825, is the Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2825/all-actions), introduced in the House on June 8, 2017, by Texas Rep. Michael McCaul with eleven fellow Republican co-sponsors. On July 20, with little notice, the bill passed the House by a vote of 386 to 41 (32 Democrats and 9 Republicans), after less than an hour of scheduled debate, and went to the Senate.
More at: https://www.globalresearch.ca/law-to-allow-president-to-send-armed-secret-service-to-polling-places/5632226
The single sentence above, which amends current federal law, would give the president unprecedented authority to send armed Secret Service agents to any US polling place for any reason. The law allows the president to send armed Secret Service agents to every US polling place if he has enough agents.
The 250-page bill containing this new authority, H.R. 2825, is the Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2825/all-actions), introduced in the House on June 8, 2017, by Texas Rep. Michael McCaul with eleven fellow Republican co-sponsors. On July 20, with little notice, the bill passed the House by a vote of 386 to 41 (32 Democrats and 9 Republicans), after less than an hour of scheduled debate, and went to the Senate.
More at: https://www.globalresearch.ca/law-to-allow-president-to-send-armed-secret-service-to-polling-places/5632226