Trump launches ‘pathetic power grab’ to derail midterms after firing election commissioners, voting groups say

• Voting rights groups and election officials are sounding alarms after President Donald Trump abruptly pushed out the three remaining members of an independent agency tasked with supporting officials who run the nation's elections.
• The president’s latest firings leave the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission without any active members less than four months before midterm elections with the balance of power in Congress — and the future of Trump’s agenda — at stake.
• A Republican appointee on the four-member panel resigned, while the remaining two Democratic appointees reportedly received termi