Jim Saksa

After Trump’s Demand for a ‘New’ Census, Commerce Department Signals Intent to Infer Citizenship Figures From Existing Data

After President Donald Trump called for a new census that uses “information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” and excludes unlawful immigrants in a murky social media post Thursday morning, the Commerce Department has provided a little — but still not much — clarification.  An unnamed spokesman for Commerce, which oversees the U.S. Census […]

By Jim Saksa

Senate Confirms Election Denying Fox Host as DC US Attorney

Senate Republicans were undeterred by former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s election denialism. They confirmed her nomination to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Saturday night by a 50-45 vote.  After agreeing with a guest on her radio show earlier this year that January 6 prosecutors should face criminal charges, Pirro will […]

By Jim Saksa

At Briefing, White House Urges States to Use DHS Databases to Check Citizenship for Voting

The White House briefed state election officials on a revamped citizenship verification system Tuesday, selling them on an untested solution for a nearly nonexistent problem.  Attended by a bipartisan group of more than a dozen secretaries of state and other election administrators, the briefing was led by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Director Joseph […]

By Jim Saksa

Fair Elections Are in Grave Danger, Democrats Warn 

Democrats are ready to pull the alarm. A forum on voter threats to fair elections, held Wednesday by Senate Democrats and headlined by former Attorney General Eric Holder and North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs warned about a coordinated attack on American democracy, while insisting that it hasn’t succeeded yet, and that elections still […]

By Jim Saksa

Senators Want Answers on Use of DHS Database to Purge Voters

If Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials can brief an election-denier group on how states are now using its databases to verify voters’ citizenship, then they can brief Congress, a trio of Democratic senators wrote to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem Tuesday.  Under President Donald Trump, DHS upgraded its Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system, […]

By Jim Saksa

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