I’ve gotten a number of helpful responses to my post from earlier today about the necessity of escalating the question of whether the White House will try to deploy ICE agents to interfere with the 2026 midterm elections. In the course of follow up on a few points readers had made I found a piece of model legislation published on March 9th by the Brennan Center. (If you don’t know about the Brennan Center they operate at the pinnacle level in terms of competence, expertise, reliability. They are perhaps a bit more conventional in their thinking – in terms of the law – than I am. But that’s not a criticism. You need people working in many different lanes to save a country.) Model legislation is a generic piece of legislation that state legislatures can pass whole or pass with their own fine-tuning. A lot of the drafting leg work is done by the creator of the model. So it can be done quickly and well, so long as the model legislation is good.
This seems very good to me. Let me explain.
