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President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are not letting a little thing like a shooting war in the Middle East distract them from their social media campaign for passage of the SAVE America Act.
The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power to take over elections — the Constitution be damned.
Both measures would effectively ban, or significantly hinder, voter registration drives run by schools, colleges, unions, and other civic groups that aim to reach unregistered voters and get them on the rolls.
Speaking with reporters Wednesday, Thune poured cold water on far-right activists’ hopes that he would quickly change the filibuster rules — the only realistic path to getting the bill passed a Democratic blockade.
The Florida House of Representatives voted 83-31 Wednesday to move forward with a sweeping voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of Floridians, at least, by creating new requirements for citizenship checks.
Voting rights advocates and Democratic officials blasted President Donald Trump after he used his State of the Union address to promote the SAVE America Act — the most restrictive anti-voting bill in U.S. history — and repeat false claims of widespread election fraud.
In his State of the Union address, President Trump demanded that Congress pass the most restrictive anti-voting bill in U.S. history, the SAVE America Act. But he also exaggerated the bill’s provisions, saying it would impose even more severe restrictions on voting than it actually would.
Top Democrats are asking Congress’ investigative arm to probe a White House website urging voters to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE) America Act — calling it a blatant violation of federal laws barring officials from using taxpayer dollars for partisan politics.
As MAGA Republicans ramp up their push for the SAVE America Act, the legacy media is doing its best to treat the right’s lies about the bill as serious arguments.
“It is claiming to solve a problem that is, frankly, imaginary,” said Amanda Gonzalez (D), the election clerk for Jefferson County, Colorado. “And what’s going to happen is we are unjustifiably going to make voting harder for millions of eligible voters across the country.”