PADILLA, MORELLE STATEMENT ON FIRING OF DEMOCRATIC COMMISSIONERS OF THE U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with jurisdiction over federal elections, and Representative Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.-25), Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration, released the following statement following the Trump Administration's illegal firing of the Democratic Commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) - just weeks after the conservative Supreme Court's unprecedented decision to upend decades of executive power to appease the President - and the resignation of the remaining Republican Commissioner, which leaves the EAC without any leadership less than four months before Election...