{"id":173729,"date":"2026-03-01T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173729\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:24:09","slug":"broward-lawyer-pushes-trump-election-seizure-by-emergency-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173729\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward lawyer pushes Trump election seizure by emergency order"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PeterAttorney Peter Ticktin, right, with conservative podcaster and convicted felon Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Widespread reports<\/a> last week linked Deerfield Beach lawyer Peter Ticktin to a scheme for President Trump to seize the midterm elections by way of an executive order Ticktin drafted.<\/p>\n

The supposed emergency behind the executive order is this: Chinese hackers are ready to corrupt U.S. voting results in November, just like they did in 2020, so a national response is necessary. No matter that U.S. intelligence agencies have debunked 2020 election-interference conspiracy theories, including the one about China, ever since Trump lost to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Ticktin put a benign spin on his work for Trump, describing himself as \u201can outside person who\u2019s attempting to influence things\u201d in an interview Thursday with Florida Bulldog.<\/p>\n

Trump is acting in the best interests of the American people, according to Ticktin. \u201cIt\u2019s important for the president to make the elections transparent so that whichever party wins, there will be no question as to whether it was fair.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, however, only Trump and his allies have questioned election integrity. After the 2020 election, they filed 62 legal challenges and nearly all were dismissed or dropped; 30 judges, including Trump appointees, found them groundless.<\/p>\n

Trump, responding to a question from a PBS reporter on Friday<\/a>, said he\u2019s not considering declaring a national emergency around the midterm elections, as Ticktin\u2019s draft executive order circulating among the president\u2019s allies suggests.<\/p>\n

A seasoned election-denial litigator and the author of \u201cWhat Makes Trump Tick,\u201d Ticktin has known the president since their high school days in the early 1960s. Ticktin was Trump\u2019s platoon sergeant at the New York Military Academy.<\/p>\n

Now he collaborates with Trump advisors such as retired Army lieutenant general Mike Flynn and MAGA firebrand Steve Bannon. Combating election fraud will require not only an executive order but military troops \u2013 ground and airborne \u2013 and federal agents, Bannon says.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re damn right we\u2019re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,\u201d Bannon said recently on his War Room podcast. \u201cAnd you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bannon\u2019s opponents are equally adamant they won\u2019t let Trump and his allies hijack the midterm elections. Norman Eisen, executive chair of the nonprofit State Democracy Defenders Fund, warned that Ticktin\u2019s handiwork, the planned Chinese-emergency executive order, would be challenged immediately.<\/p>\n

\"ticktin<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Trump tries this we will be in court in the blink of an eye,\u201d Eisen said Friday on MS NOW. \u201cIf he tries this, he will fail. There\u2019s no constitutional basis for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

TICKTIN\u2019S FLORIDA BAR HISTORY<\/p>\n

Ticktin is known for his ongoing representation of Tina Peters, a Republican county clerk in Colorado who\u2019s serving a nine-year prison sentence for plotting to tamper with election equipment in 2021. Calling her a \u201cpolitical prisoner\u201d who was trying to reveal the truth about what she calls the stolen 2020 presidential election, Ticktin has been agitating for her release.<\/p>\n

His current mission is far removed in subject matter and location from where he started out.<\/p>\n

Peter Ticktin began his legal career in 1972 in Ontario, Canada. \u201cHis record in Ontario was impeccable,\u201d according to his firm\u2019s website, but in 2022 Florida Bulldog couldn\u2019t verify part of his resume.<\/p>\n

Ticktin claimed he \u201cchanged the law regarding breaking and entering before the Supreme Court of Canada.\u201d Or maybe it was the Ontario Superior Court, which his website listed separately as the venue even though superior court judges follow significant laws, as opposed to changing them.<\/p>\n

Peter Ticktin relocated to Florida in 1985 and was graduated from the University of Miami School of Law three years later. He set out to position himself, the website says, \u201con the cutting edge of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The website highlights his fight to prevent doctors from disclosing HIV patients\u2019 status to their employers. However, in 1996 Ticktin lost his case raising this issue, Doe v. Potash, in the Third District Court of Appeal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, the law was changed, and Ticktin took full credit. \u201cMr. Peter Ticktin was the leader in this field in South Florida,\u201d the website boasts.<\/p>\n

In 2008 Ticktin opened The Ticktin Law Group, a general civil litigation practice that \u201cendeavors to live up to the ideals of the new lawyers who first graduate from law school,\u201d according to the firm\u2019s legalbrains.com<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

The following year, ruling on a Florida Bar ethics complaint against Ticktin, the Florida Supreme Court ordered him to briefly close his practice. The court\u2019s opinion says he\u2019d shown \u201cpoor professional judgment\u201d resulting in \u201cmisconduct \u2026 unbecoming of a member of the Florida Bar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another Bar complaint also resulted in a brief suspension of Ticktin\u2019s law license. Both ethics cases are too old to appear in his current Florida Bar profile; it now says he\u2019s a \u201cmember in good standing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"West Palm Beach U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks<\/p>\n

More recently, West Palm Beach U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks slammed Ticktin and other lawyers in a high-profile election case, Trump v. Clinton. Ticktin was a member of the plaintiff\u2019s team led by Alina Habba, who later was Trump\u2019s pick for acting U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Her stint ended in December when a federal appeals court ruled she was appointed illegally.<\/p>\n

A FEDERAL COURT LOSS<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s complaint alleges Hillary Clinton and a crowd of co-conspirators tried to steal the 2016 election, violating the federal civil racketeering law even though Trump won the presidency. Middlebrooks dismissed the case in September 2022.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t stop there. The judge issued sanctions against Ticktin, Habba and Trump totaling almost $1 million for pressing what Middlebrooks called \u201cpolitical grievances masquerading as legal claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he referred the lawyers to their state ethics supervisors, writing he was \u201cpessimistic\u201d that sanctions alone could \u201ceffectively stem this abuse. Aspects may be beyond the purview of the judiciary, requiring attention of the Bar and disciplinary authorities,\u201d he wrote in his 2022 opinion.<\/p>\n

Yet the Florida Bar didn\u2019t investigate Ticktin, he confirmed 16 months later. \u201cNor should it,\u201d he told Florida Bulldog. (It\u2019s noteworthy that the Bar doesn\u2019t operate independently but as an arm of the Florida Supreme Court, a conservative stronghold since 2019.)<\/p>\n

At that point, with an appeal pending in the 11th Circuit, Ticktin called Middlebrooks \u201cgood, decent, honest\u201d but misinformed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision was political,\u201d Ticktin said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying the judge is political, but in the current environment you\u2019ve got two different kinds of people, those that believe what they see in the media and those who look at alternative news and tend to believe what they see in the alternative news.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November the conservative 11th Circuit upheld Middlebrooks\u2019s dismissal of Trump v. Clinton. Last week Ticktin changed his tune.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe have rules of ethics that require we don\u2019t say things that criticize the courts publicly and so for me to say what I think about that opinion would cause me possibly to violate the rules of ethics,\u201d Ticktin said. \u201cYou can say I was extremely disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, he said he believes any challenge to Trump\u2019s planned executive order would fail. The 11th Circuit wouldn\u2019t resolve an appeal, Ticktin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully it will have a fair decision from the U.S. Supreme Court because there are emergency powers that the president has to have,\u201d Ticktin said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not as though he\u2019s trying to control the election in such a way as to gain control for the Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, though, Trump says that\u2019s his goal: enable Republicans to prevent Democrats from \u201ccheating\u201d to win.<\/p>\n


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