cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56508353
Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to withhold his signature from all bills until Congress passes a GOP-led voting bill that implements voter restrictions ahead of the November midterms.
“I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION – GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY – ILLNESS, DISABILITY, TRAVEL,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.
The bill, called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, requires individuals to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot. If passed, the legislation would also administer criminal penalties for election officials who register anyone lacking the required documents.
As my colleague Ari Berman wrote in February, the bill would potentially block tens of millions of Americans from voting. Nine percent of American citizens, or approximately 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents. The bill may impact millions of US citizens in other ways: tens of millions of women who took their partner’s last name, for example, may not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name could find it more difficult to register.
Yes, and we’ll see how willing he is to restrict them when the first terrorist/false flag attack happens this year
They literally wrote and published a playbook about how they were going to it.
This comment gets posted every time Trump does anything at all. WE know. His voter base still hasn’t changed, nor will it.
Likewise, we know.
Propaganda works
“Plus, it’s fine as long as he only does it to restrict Dem votes because then we win, right?”
-Galaxy-Brain voters
I think the knowledge is more widespread on lemmy than imgur, but worth remembering: If he doesn’t sign legislation within 10 days, as long as Congress is in session, it will automatically go into effect. So the Senate doesn’t even have to shut down, they can keep on passing legislation, as long as they’re in session.
I think his implication is that he’ll veto everything, not just let it desk rot.
I hesitate to ascribe any sense of strategy to the guy, but the presidential veto is one of the most direct exercises of power that he has, and this is a guy who salivates at any opportunity to flex whatever power he can.
Given how the GOP’s prospects in the next election are only likely to get worse, this might actually be the thing they end the filibuster for.
It’ll be hilarious if they end the filibuster and then end up with a narrow minority in both chambers.
The ideal outcome would be
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They nuke the filibuster to pass the bill
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It gets held up in courts because it’s obviously unconstitutional and doesn’t get implemented in time for the midterms
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They get blown tf out in the midterms
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The law gets overturned in courts because it’s obviously unconstitutional
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No more filibuster.
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Lemmy is somehow full of people at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to outlook on future elections. It’s either “No one is going to do anything, democracy is over, Trump is king.” or it’s “This is the end of the Republican party, it’s Democrats and the left after this next election and here on out.”
Neither side will stand for the middle class. Either way, I just hope that when we all die that my kids don’t suffer. I don’t have the energy to care anymore. I’ll vote, but I’m so tired.
