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The Senate blocked another Republican attempt to attach the anti-voting SAVE America Act to an immigration funding package, marking the second failed GOP effort to move the sweeping voting restrictions bill through the chamber.
Republicans introduced a new bill that could help revive pieces of the SAVE America Act — a sweeping voting restrictions package that has stalled in the Senate — by using a federal grant program for REAL ID cards to create the budget impact needed to move through reconciliation and bypass a Democratic filibuster.
The Louisiana Senate voted 28-10 to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional seats Friday, sending the remapping bill to Gov. Jeff Landry (R) for signing.
The law makes it a felony for anyone — including law enforcement — to seize ballots from any California county elections office.
Texas AG Ken Paxton has been a vocal and early supporter of a plan to sideline the filibuster to allow the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act.
Louisiana’s House and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a new congressional map eliminating one of Louisiana’s two majority-Black districts.
The Senate parliamentarian determines whether certain bills can bypass normal filibuster thresholds, as Trump is hoping will happen with the SAVE America Act.
Senate Republicans celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by plotting paths forward for right-wing lawyers and elected officials to further erode minority electoral power at a hearing Tuesday.
When President Donald Trump announced he was endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in Texas’ U.S. Senate primary, he appeared to have one thing at the front of his mind: the SAVE America Act.
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