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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. “We will not be his victims,” Newsom said. “We will be the wall he […]
Caving to MAGA hardliners, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the House will pass the SAVE America Act, President Trump’s massive voter suppression bill, “one more time” through a budget reconciliation process.
MAGA hardliners in the U.S. House hijacked control of the floor from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Tuesday in yet another unsuccessful attempt to force through President Donald Trump’s pet anti-voting legislation.
President Donald Trump seized on a major U.S. Supreme Court loss for Republicans to push again for the SAVE America Act, a sweeping anti-voting bill. But he acknowledged that passage of the measure is “probably not going to happen.”
While the Supreme Court’s ruling likely puts an end to one prong of the president’s attacks on voting, the battle isn’t over for Trump. He and his MAGA allies will now attempt to turn their fury at the courts into a catalyst for new federal and state voter suppression measures.
Despite supporting the anti-voter SAVE America Act, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall admits there may not be time to implement it before November.
South Dakota Republican delegates rejected a push to censure Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) over the stalled SAVE America Act, exposing a fight within the GOP over how far the party should go to force through sweeping new voting restrictions.
Kansas Republicans are facing growing scrutiny over a potential scheme that could deny voters a say in this year’s U.S. Senate race and let GOP state lawmakers silence voters’ voices on who represents them in Washington.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have implemented new mail voting restrictions, arguing the measure was not necessary and would have proved too burdensome for voters.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would hold a bipartisan housing affordability bill hostage in another attempt to force the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, his pet legislative project that election experts call “the most restrictive voting bill ever.” Just hours before a scheduled bill signing ceremony, Trump took to social media […]