As Legal Eagle did a video on it, his care for it being legal seems to be little to nothing at all. GL HF
He’s absolutely gonna push congress to legislate a National Voter ID system within a month of elections, isn’t he?
They can’t pass the SAVE act, it won’t make it through the Senate filibuster.
Unless Chuck caves under 0 pressure again
There’s a contingent of democratic senators who are ready to relieve Chuck of his office. I think either that scares him into holding the line or his capitulation loses him the leadership position.
There are 44 other Senators who can kill the bill by simply stating their intent to filibuster. Even if Chuck caves.
Yep. He sure is, so that there’s no way it could possibly be implemented in time, and then he’ll use the resulting chaos as ‘proof’ of voting fraud
And the wheels of justice shall turn slowly. In December 2027, they’ll rule that people should have been allowed to vote in November 2026
So quickly? I was thinking the ruling would come down 4-5 years after the event
Was I being too optimistic?
Democrats are currently furrowing their brows, drafting stern letters, and making appeals to norms and traditions.
Don’t forget to send it the texts asking for money!
What do you need to do?
This EO has all of the legal weight of a blog post.
Article 4 Section 1
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The only groups that have power over elections is the State and Congress.
Trump can draft an EO declaring himself king of mars. He can write anything in an EO, he’s the E. A state can simply ignore it, it has no chance of surviving a motion for a TRO.
they got to ride that thin line of not alienating the fence sitters of genocide and not genocide, and still pretend to care to feed their vote blue no matter who base
Aren’t the state’s responsible for running the election system?
Yeah there’s this pesky little thing called the constitution that explains that.
Yes
Yes, until the Scabrous SCROTUS says the president is as well.
The rules of Monolopoly say absolutely nothing happens on Free Parking. The official rules mean nothing if nobody follows them in practice
Federal elections, instead of state elections?
So that means no more electoral college, right? Right?
Trump can make all the lists he wants, he doesn’t get to say shit about how the states run their elections or decide whether or not he accepts their results. Those results are officially certified by the electors of each state and Congress counts the electoral votes, NOT Trump. Federal office holders cannot be electors.
We literally had an attempted coup on Jan 6th 2020 to prevent those electors from doing their jobs. They were unsuccessful.
Nailed it. And to quibble, Jan 6th 2021 :)
Being technically right the the best kind of right.
Elections are 100% controlled by the states, there is nothing they can do to force states to comply with this stupid shit. Trump is an utter fucking moron.
A bunch of states are going to kowtow to him anyway, a judge is going to declare it unconstitutional, Trump’s going to throw a hissyfit & bomb Djibouti or some shit as distraction and Congress is going to pass it anyway.
Trump is an utter moron, being supported by utter morons, with utter morons calling rational people “the real morons” for daring to ask “wait, what?”
I’m tired, and I can’t weld good enough to make a Killdozer…
I don’t think you need to be a very good welder for that particular project.
My “welding” experience consists of soldering parts onto circuit boards. I don’t think that will help much with thick steel plates. Can’t have a Killdozer that falls apart mid rampage.
If you’re a registered Democrat, you’re going to get a late night visit from ICE.
castle doctrine gonna suck for ice
Own a modern firearm to shoot fascists foot soldiers, as the founding fathers intended…
Fuck that we tally ho.
They are not prepared to deal with cannons. Or revolutionary war recreationists
States rights blah blah blah right?
we are a christian country!!! oh you can’t minister to our detainees.
Still playing the accordion, I see.
FUCK YOU RAPIST
More specifically, child rapist. As well as rapist of women.
And based on some of the alleged quotes from the man himself that hes said to his victims about making their whole family dissappear if they ever reported him, possibly murderer as well. If not directly, by giving the order and paying the murderers.
It’s going to be decades before we learn the full scope of what hes done, and Ill bet you even then, there will be people that defend him and claim its all fake news, even after hes roasting for eternity in one of the lower circles of hell.
We don’t need fucking Trump’s permission to vote.
If you’re in a state with mail-in voting, you need the federal government to carry those ballots, and he just told USPS to interfere, so
No person needs permission from a leader to vote.
Leaders are elected first in the hearts and minds of the people and then at the ballot box.
A leader can try to take away the ballot box, but they can’t take away people’s will and leaders who forget this will ultimately lose one way or another.
We need to fight back against the hurdles and vote. Don’t let this get us down and maybe we can get the message out as to what people need to do the get over the hurdles they’re creating.
Goddamn I want to leave this country, but no one wants immigrants from the US and I don’t blame them
Yep, most countries are going to refuse American refugees. We’ll just have to stay here, and fight back.
I definitely get and feel similarly, and I guess this aint a bright spot but unless things change drastically and rapidly so there are very few places on the planet that will be able to serve as a refuge for the pain coming over the next few years. The best we can all hope for is that the US collapses rapidly before the technofeudalists and christofascists can further cement control
The only country I can easily emigrate to is arguably worse. Which is doubly sucky
Keep your options open, there is still time for it to be preferable to America. I have faith in Trump that he will make things much worse.
No.
