Voting regulation is not a power expressed to Congress (except as related to ensuring no bias in race, age, and gender), so his unilateral action has no basis in law. But, when has a basis in law ever applied to him? Lawful grounds such as ‘consent’ has never applied to him before. Why would it now?
Remember when treason was punishable by death?
He tried this last year, they took him to court, he lost, he didn’t appeal. Dementia hitting him hard.
Trump doesn’t get to say shit about how the states run their elections. Even if he “Hereby Do Dee-clares” it. /s
Shut the fuck up pedophile.
Should be how every reporter respinds to his quips.
If this stupid asshole fucks up our awesome voting system (mail-in, thank you very fucking much) in Colorado, he’s going to be even more hated than he is already.
I don’t even understand the rhetoric on both sides here. If he puts out an EO about elections? Tough titties. Zero legal force. No court case or nothing needed. The federal executive does not have authority over state matters, full stop, end of, simpoo avv, innit, an’all, est fin, etc.
It would be like me issuing a declaration that everyone must suck my dick.
f he puts out an EO about elections? Tough titties. Zero legal force.
Him putting out an executive order to do so is all
I.C.E.MAGA needs to justify lynchings.Guess there will be some counter lynching then. I seen someone trying to intimidate voters outside, I’m going to shoot them, and walk over their corpse to vote.
Lynch who? Voters?
Anyone he says.
Kids of MAGA parents out there, remember to take your parent’s ID the day before election day.
Schadenfreude of the mysterious missing wallet
For states that have had all-mail-in voting for decades now, like Oregon and Washington, this is basically wholesale disenfranchisement of the whole state.
We’ll just count the ballots as is. He can’t enforce anything.
Sounds like something a rapist would say.
A pedophile rapist, who’s victim is ‘later found dead’.
A pedophile rapist
Also a nepophile rapist and a rapist of teens and woman.
victims*
The one that the majority of americans either voted for, or allowed into office by consequence of inaction? That rapist pedophile? Guess they all got what they wanted, then. Lofl
We honestly don’t know that that happened.
To append to my other comment:
He has even less authority over midterms than he does over the presidential election. Which is to say none, but even indirectly, far less.
Even if there was a question of negation on state votes for congresspeople, it would not be, in any way shape or form, the executive’s prerogative. It would be each house of Congress itself. It’s like parliament vs the monarch.
“If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order”
I’m speechless.
Ah, I can see it now.
- ICE shows up to a purple state voting place on election day.
- Election monitor says they can’t be there.
- “Let us in or we kill you for probable cause of terrorism”
- Someone calls in the neighborhood watch/militia.
- Someone else calls the cops, thinking they’ll help.
- ICE barricades the voting place, taking the people inside hostage.
- Militia and police units outside are locked in a standoff.
- ICE kills a hostage “for being a terrorist”.
- Three way fight between ICE, the cops, and the militia.
- Cops and ICE ultimately overwhelm the militia with superior firepower. A few cops are injured by ICE by accident.
- Thoughts and prayers are sent.
- Democrat votes are tossed out in other voting places by ICE for being “terrorist votes”.
- GOP retains House and Senate with huge lead.
Settle down Cassandra.
Yeah! And look at this nice horsey they brought us!!
Republicans keep pushing for voter ID, but it’s not even clear that it would disproportionately help the GOP anymore. Maybe in the past it did, because people who live in cities with public transportation are less likely to have drivers’ licenses. But the political realignment of the past decade has sorted mostly by education, with low educational attainment going very disproportionately Republican. So now they have the lion’s share of people who can’t get their shit together. Requiring ID for voting (or adding any additional hurdles) will possibly filter out more of their dummies than it does our urbanites.
because people who live in cities with public transportation are less likely to have drivers’ licenses.
He’s not even talking about using driver license because anyone can get one of those. No, he’s talking about proof of citizenship, which will disenfranchise wwwwaaaaayyyyy more people.
Do you know where your birth certificate is? No? Good luck.
Does your current name via marriage match what’s on the certificate? No. Get fucked ma’am. We need more
future wage slavesbabies anyway.Don’t have a passport? Sorry, but you’re disenfranchised!
Oh? You have everything squared away? Right this way Mr. Rich-man! You’re just the person we want to vote since you’ll probably vote for us.
Yes, requiring a birth certificate is even more onerous. Again, it’s not clear that this will help Republicans (assuming it ever makes into law). Of course some rich people still vote Republican, but I’m willing to bet that a higher percentage of the population that knows where their birth certificate is votes for Democrats now. Same thing for people who floss regularly, remember their parents’ birthdays, or know how to read a scatter plot.
I think the issue is you assume it will be enforced universally. It won’t. It will be dependent on the makeup of the district and the color of the individual voter. It will be up to individuals at polling stations (and any ICE present) whether ‘exceptions’ can be made for people that are ‘obviously citizens but forgot their ID’. Or whether a married woman’s name mismatch is an issue or not based on her skin/hair color and way of speaking. It’s going to be selectively enforced, by design
That would be clearly illegal. The courts have have to go along with it, in which case we have bigger problems
Right, but a birth certificate is just words on a papet. Republicans will say that is an insufficient link to the person holding it.
There aren’t enough people willing to go along with what would be required to bring this to fruition. Trump doesn’t get to decide who is allowed to vote.
We’re gonna need a lot of folk from the communuty watching theirs and their neighbor’s polling locations just like any other
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He’ll get what he wants, too.
They got two choices; peaceful shutdown or slow, painful collapse.
🤔 I see more choices, e.g. violent painful shutdown.
