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President Trump said he would seek to delay the Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton, his nominee for director of national intelligence, in yet another attempt to pressure lawmakers into passing the SAVE America Act, a massive anti-voting bill.
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are trying to ban state election officials from publicly encouraging people to vote, part of a massive proposed overhaul of elections that a state legislative committee approved Tuesday.
Despite the president’s statements, there is little reason to believe that Republicans can finally enact a version of the SAVE America Act.
Arizona Republicans passed a ballot measure that would mandate photo ID for voting, even for mail-in and absentee ballots.
Ohio Republicans voted to put a measure on the November ballot that would enshrine the state’s existing photo ID requirement into the state constitution.
President Trump said the Pentagon wants congressional Republicans to include anti-voting restrictions from the SAVE America Act in a multibillion-dollar defense bill.
Now that Trump’s approval ratings are hitting historic lows five months before the midterms, many are expecting a blue wave come November. And some Democrats are looking to undo the damage already done and prevent it from happening again.
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.