Cool. Elections are administered by the states though, and my state guarantees mail-in ballots in the constitution. Sooooo, good luck with that, I suppose?
If the Save act goes through I don’t see how they couldn’t do similar with this. I imagine the argument would be the same, that they are not taking the administration of the voting away from the states, just setting a standardized required method. I don’t think he’d be able to do it via executive order legally, but I dont know who would stop it. He could just have the house/Senate pass it like the save act if they so wanted. Your state constitution doesn’t matter at that point. We like to say it’s a free country but it took us 4 amendments just to get to a point that still basically says our people don’t have the right to vote.
The constitution didn’t have a right to vote.
The bill of rights didn’t have a right to vote.
The 15th amendment (1870) said we can’t restrict voting based off Race.
The 19th amendment (1920) said we can’t restrict voting for women.
The 24th Amendment (1964) said we can’t restrict the voting by taxing polls.
The 26th Amendment (1971) said we can’t restrict voters over 18 (previously 21).
Most people think this means all those people have a right to vote, but it is really the government doesn’t have the ability to explicitly restrict those people from voting.
If U.S. citizens had the right to vote none of those amendments would have been necessary and we would be free to vote and our arguments would hold up in court easier. But the U.S. has long perpetuated the lie that we are free. We are a “democratic Republic” where the government can, has, and will try to restrict our freedom at every turn if it benefits those in power.
Tldr; If U.S. citizens had a right to vote, we wouldn’t have had amendments, the Supreme Court would have ruled a long time ago that any act restricting U.S. citizens from voting was illegal.
The ‘if’ in ‘if the SAVE Act goes through’ is doing a lot of work. The recent bill that was passed was only able to be done through budget reconciliation, because you only need 50 votes plus the VP to break the tie. But for bills outside of budget reconciliation, you need 60 votes to end the filibuster. Barring anything unforeseen (recognizing that breaking norms is the norm for this administration), there’s no way I could see it getting through the Senate.
That’s how we all vote in Washington state. Its super convenient.
I feel like he wants to make it super inconvenient whilst rigging the vote in his terrible favor
Can’t intimidate people away from voting if they vote by mail.
Top left hat. I don’t think he cares much about the constitution.
Is that Zelenskyy there? Imagine having to meet with this pompous asshole in the WH and be forced to stand there and “admire” his fucking stupid old man hat collection.
It’s not a collection. It’s a grift shop. There are multiples of each item. Look at the shelves on the right too. There are stacks of books to be sold.
It’s not a collection. It’s merch.
Yes, that’s Zelenskyy in black.
That’s a merch store and trump isn’t running again his entire purpose was to bring JD Vance on to subvert MAGA culture.
A constitutional fight is just what he’s after. No doubt scotus will find the constitution does in fact grant this power to the president, no take backs, neener neener
“6-3 We’ve found that the Constitution is unconstitutional.”
Does he care about constitutionality?
There have been many things he’s done already that are unconstitutional, and the only response from the Dems are “Well, wait for the election gais, I swear!!”
He owns the Supreme Court and owns enough judges in the circuit that he can basically do whatever he wants right now. The only thing holding him back is he doesn’t have the conviction of the nazis at this point, he is still moving slow and pretending to care about America enough for show that he hasn’t started arresting governors and senators. Yet.
He knows he’s old and won’t see his glorious fourth reich or whatever bullshit tarded out vision of America he has in his addled head, but there are a lot of people waiting in the wings of power to swoop in and reshape America into some kind of moronic holocaust of white nationalism, day-drinking housewife medicine, bureau-of-flat-earthism, crystals and essential oils and warplanes banana republic with too much money where everything is a corporation and everything is a product and we all live in shanties.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
OK, but elections are run by states, not the federal government, and the GOP has worked to defang the FEC, so I don’t know how he actually plans to make this happen.
I live in an unincorporated area. I have no other way to vote.
That’s because it’s no longer a political party, it’s a cult and you’re either with their child rapist, insurrectionist, white supremacist ignorant bigotry or against them.
The man’s very existence is unconstitutional. He cares not a whit for constitutionality and neither do his enablers
For the 679th time.
What are you going to do about it, Keep bleating that its illegal, while they laugh , do it, and secure more power?
I’m gonna post about. I’m gonna post the hell out of it.
He is still a nonce
When has that ever stopped him
Yeah, well, an absolute shit-ton of what that dipshit has done has been blasted as unconstitutional and very little of has managed to be stopped, so you’ll forgive me if I just don’t give a shit how “blasted” his actions get if there’s no actual meaningful impact to them seeing fruition that comes from it.
Worst bait ever lmaoooo. Feds don’t run elections, states do.
Until the feds show up with armed troops, and “manage” the election.
Yeah… then the governor can roll out the NG and counter them. It’ll be a huge fucked up mess.
You mean like how they are doing it now, to counter the unconstitutional actions of the federal government today?
But online voting won’t be touched?
I think online voting is not available in most states. Without looking it up, I think Oregon or Utah is the only state that allows it.
Edit : Most states have it for overseas or for people on military deployment. A handful of states have it for people with disabilities.
Maine and Colorado too. Maybe a few more
