“Congressional Republicans are attempting to commandeer the midterm election cycle and increase voting margins in President Trump’s favor by putting a finger on the scale of our elections and pushing nonsensical, anti-democratic laws to stop voters from casting a ballot,” said Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert. “This overreaching, un-American bill tacks on unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles to vote, all of which would harm voters across the political spectrum.”
“The bill is likely dead on arrival in the narrowly divided Senate, with every Democrat and at least one Republican, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, expected to oppose it.”
Republicans can’t win free and fair elections so they’re trying to eliminate free and fair elections.
Democrats legitimately would have a supermajority every time if Republicans had to play by fair rules
Would be very exciting if a state pulled a South Carolina and nullified this bill.
What do you mean? Honestly. Not familiar with what you are referring to.
As the other guy said, Nullification Crisis.
South Carolina was pissed over tariffs. Jackson wouldn’t reduce the tariffs so SC said fuck it and said the tariff is null and void in the state.
Jackson was very pissed by the nullification and pushed the Force Bill through Congress so he could give SC a beatdown.
Eventually, Congress pushed a compromise tariff through, and SC agreed with it. They also nullified the Force Bill right afterwards as a final fuck you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_crisis
Basically South Carolina hated the raised federal tariffs under J Q Adams and hoped Jackson would lower them. When Jackson didn’t, South Carolina declared the tariff law to be null and void.
The bill is likely dead
It’ll pass.
I have no idea why anyone thinks democrats will vote as a singular bloc. They’ll vote to give DHS a massive budget soon despite being able to indefinitely withhold funding and starve the department committing heinous crimes. Then they’ll say its to protect those that are in custody because DHS will have no funding to take care of them otherwise. DHS will continue their terroristic assaults on American soil until midterms. Democrats will run on stopping them and right before elections, Republicans will give their word to reign in DHS if they pass this bill. A handful of dems will break rank to cover the 4-5 Republicans that oppose working with democrats to save face and the bill passes.
Shortly thereafter something inflammatory happens and the Republicans allow DHS to resume their terror efforts. (If they ever stopped in the first place) And democrats get nothing out of the situation other than being able to indefinitely act appalled by this administration.
You got it. You took the time that I didn’t, thank you.
